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Mosja Posted 6 years ago
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What does number of years mean

its like he only been to Athens for number of years.

2018

2019

2020

2 years?

8 years?

9 years?

0 year?

  

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its like he only been to Athens for number of years. This is incorrect English. Better English is eg It's like he has only been to Athens for a number of years.

  • its like he only been to Athens for number of years.
  • This is incorrect English.
  • Better English is eg It's like he has only been to Athens for a number of years.
  • But I don't understand what this means.
  • Plese try to say it another way.
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its like he only been to Athens for number of years. This is incorrect English.

Better English is eg It's like he has only been to Athens for a number of years. But I don't understand what this means. Plese try to say it another way.

Clive

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its like he only been to Athens for number of years.his is incorrect.

More correct English is eg It's like he has only been to Athens for a number of years.

But I don't undertsand what this means. Please explain.

Clive

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He has visited Athens a number of times over the past thirty years, but he goes only once in any given year. 

"A number of times" is more than two, but probably less than twenty.

He has visited Athens numerous times over the past thirty years.

"Numerous" is probably more than ten, perhaps less than a hundred.

He has visited Athens many times over the past thir

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