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Using numbers.

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Share on WhatsApp • Day, month, minute, mile, kilo, etc. are always SINGULAR when used (with a number) immediately before a noun: A six-minute wait. A ten-second silence. A five-mile race. My travel agent had arranged a 6-day coach tour. The company provides a three-month training course.   Compare: 'We waited for thirty minutes.' 'We had a thirty-minute wait.' • When you say 100, 1000, etc. or write these numbers in words, Use… A hundred, A thousand (WITH a) The palace was built a thousand years ago.   Compare: 'The palace was built 1000 years ago.' For emphasis or to be exact, it is possible to use one instead of a : I am one hundred percent against the idea.   • After a/one/five/twelve etc. the words hundred, thousand, etc. are always SINGULAR and are not followed by of :   Five hundred children are born in the city every day. More than three thousand people were there. Similarly, of is NOT used after 100, 250, 3000 etc.  If yo

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