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Numbers, Time & Dates
Cardinal and ordinal numbers, telling the time, days of the week, and months of the year
Large numbers: millions / billions
1,000,000 = one million / 1,000,000,000 = one billion (American English)
Phone numbers — digit by digit
Say each digit separately: 0-4-4-7-9 = "oh-four-four-seven-nine"
Fractions: half / quarter / third
a half (½) / a quarter (¼) / a third (⅓) / three quarters (¾)
Decimals and percentages
3.5 = "three point five" / 75% = "seventy-five percent"
Duration: for + period
for two hours, for three days, for a long time, for ages
How long ago: ago
two days ago, three weeks ago, ten years ago — for past time
Approximate numbers: about / around
about 50 people / around 3 o'clock / roughly 10 minutes / nearly 100
at the beginning / end of
at the beginning of the month / at the end of the year / at the start
from...to / between...and
from Monday to Friday / between 3 and 5 o'clock / from start to finish
during vs while
during the meeting (noun follows) / while I was talking (clause follows)
