If papers are compared one by one, and three particular papers, equally good, are better than any paper outside the three, they are"the three best papers". But the situation I think you have in mind is that papers have been compared one by one and that each one has been given a unique rank, such as"best","second best", etc., and you want to refer to the top three by rank.
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Bulgaria, Bulgarian. May 8, 2007. #1. Hi, can you please tell me if all these are correct? 1.a three-storey building. 2. a building on three floors. 3. a building that is three storeys high. 4. a three storeys' building by analogy with a three days' trip.
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Hello, I wonder why the article a is used with the word pattern only. Why are not all the bold words used either with the article or none? Once is chance, twice is coincidence, three times is a pattern Even when I came across a different wording of the quote the article issue is still there...
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It was three minutes' walk away. It was a three-minute walk away. We had four weeks' holiday. (It could be four weeks together, or four weeks annually.) We had a four-week holiday. (All four weeks together.) A couple of things: I don't know what"a four week-work" or"a four-week work" might be, but here are some alternatives:
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Mar 7, 2011. #6. That is correct. In compound numerals, 'hundred' and 'thousand' stay invariable: three hundred, two thousand nine hundred etc. The plural is only used to show a large but approximate quantity: hundreds of people, thousands of cars, hundreds of thousands of ants etc. 2.
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The red car is two times more expensive than the blue one. A is two times taller than B. A runs three times faster than B. Hence, with comparative adjectives we can only use the structure"twice/half/three times". Like in these sentences: A runs twice as fast as B. B runs half as fast as A.
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For three weeks - this indicates a duration = during the three weeks."For three weeks" is an adverbial phrase and is clearly so as it comprises a preposition an a noun phrase as an object. 2. Passengers may board the plane twenty minutes prior to (= before) departure. = Passengers may board the plane from a time that is twenty minutes prior to ...
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A"three-year experience" means that you had an experience that lasted three years. For example:"I lived in France in the 1990s. It was a wonderful three-year experience"."This position requires three years' experience" means, as you know, work experience. Frankly, I dislike this shortening of the proper phrase which is, in my mind"three ...
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I don't think I'd actually say this, U."A family of three/four/five" means two parents plus one/two/three children; or one parent + two/three/four children. So"I have a family of x" doesn't quite work. They are a family of x. The house was occupied by a family of x. I have a family of x. U.
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Nope, maybe it is more Russian, the native language of the only person saying they prefer it! I would always say three and a half years. No, in Russian the only normal order is"three and a half years". We never change the words' places in this case (maybe only in poetry to follow the rythm, and it will sound too pompous).
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