Numerals
273
- but
- tenpenny nail
- fourfold
- three-ply
- five votes
- six bales
- two dozen
- one gross
- zero miles
- seven-story building
k. Money:
- $3.65; $0.75; 75 cents; 0.5 cent
- $3 (not $3.00) per 200 pounds
- 75 cents apiece
- Rs32,25,644 (Indian rupees)
- 2.5 francs or fr2. 5
- 65 yen
- ₽265
- but
- two pennies
- three quarters
- one half
- six bits, etc.
1. Percentage:
- 12 percent; 25.5 percent; 0.5 percent (or one-half of 1 percent)
- thirty-four one hundredths of 1 percent
- 3.65 bonds; 3.65s; 5-20 bonds; 5-20s; 4½s; 3s
- 50-50 (colloquial expression)
- 5 percentage points
- a 1,100-percent increase, or an 1100-percent increase
m. Proportion:
- 1 to 4
- 1-3-5
- 1:62,500
n. Time (see also Clock time):
- 6 hours 8 minutes 20 seconds
- 10 years 3 months 29 days
- 7 minutes
- 8 days
- 4 weeks
- 1 month
- 3 fiscal years; third fiscal year
- 1 calendar year
- millennium
but
- four centuries
- three decades
- three quarters (9 months)
- statistics of any one year
- in a year or two
- four afternoons
- one-half hour
- the eleventh hour
