- Two days is or are? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Is if you're treating the two days as a single length of time; are if you're treating them as multiple lengths of time
- Fill in your application up to 7 days prior to your arrival
It is a bit ambiguous but, given that the system would not allow you to complete the form 12 days before your planned arrival, the 7 day period is obviously a maximum rather than a minimum The system will allow you to complete the form so long as the lead time is seven days or less You can complete it six days in advance but not 8 days in advance The reason for "fill in" rather than "fill
- synonyms - One word substitutions for number of days? - English . . .
Words exist to label periods of time - like week which represents 7 days and fortnight which is used for a 14-day period Are there other such words used for certain numbers of consecutive days?
- Vacation days or days off - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In most organizations, vacation days are usable at the employee's discretion, up to a certain yearly limit Days off is a more informal phrase that includes a variety of kinds of paid-not-to-work days, including sick leave, maternal paternal leave, floating holidays, national holidays, etc Vacation days are a subset of days off
- Logical meaning of within 30 days compared to in 30 or fewer days . . .
I would read the first as referring to a deadline, the second referring to a total accumulation of days spent For example, "This project must be finished within 30 days" is different than "This project must be finished in 30 days or fewer " - The first establishes a "date" the second just establishes a duration or level of effort
- time - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The potential ambiguity is because in "within 10 days before the flight", the following noun phrase "10 days before the flight" has a form that would generally cause it to be interpreted as a point in time rather than a range
- word choice - What are the abbreviations for days of the week . . .
It will be used in a tabular data program to show information about free work days of employed and each column can't have enought space to include full week day name For "common form" I mean, what are the abbreviations that is more used in programs
- meaning - Past few days or the past few days? - English Language . . .
So when we say 'the past few days' we mean the complete set of 'past few days', not just some of them, and which means this time phrase matches the tense Do we use the phrase 'past few days' on its own? Highly unlikely, it lacks a sense of which days
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