Jul 7th, 2012, 05:43 am
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Sue | | Join Date: Oct 8th, 2006 Location: Milan
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Re: is this acceptable? Yes, they're fine. When you have a noun phrase consisting of an adjective + cardinal number + plural noun - as in both your sentences - it's as if the "things" in the noun phrase were seen as one group. You could gloss these sentences as : a mere period of 20 minutes
an additional force of 21 bombers. |