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Dela Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

Within a generation

The proportion of young adults still living with their parents will pass 50 per cent within a generation.
It seems to me that the above sentence has been complete without the pharase within a generation, maybe I had a wrong understanding because I don't know the exact meaning of this phrase. Is it similar to " soon"?
  

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The proportion of young adults still living with their parents will pass 75 per cent soon, if their parents can somehow hag onto the house..

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The proportion of young adults still living with their parents will pass 75 per cent soon, if their parents can somehow hag onto the house..
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within a generation seems to me an adverbial phrase of time. How long is one generation equal to? 20 years or 30 year? Does "within a generation" mean within 20 or 30 years?
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Delawithin a generation seems to me an adverbial phrase of time.
Right.
DelaHow long is one generation equal to? 20 years or 30 year?
I doubt there is any fixed number of years, but your estimates are in the usual range. I'd say that "within a generation" means "in about 25 years" if you want an equivalent in years.
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OK, I see. thank you!
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Hello Dela,

Population economists have evolved several different definitions of generation length.

A generation is, loosely, the length of time in which the current population reproduces itself - is producing as many children as the current number of the total population.

One way of considering this is to take the average age of the parents of each child born during a pe
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