jueves, 26 de septiembre de 2013

30 y pico 40 y pico, 100 y pico, 1000 y pico...

30-odd, 40-odd, 100-odd, 1000-odd...

"I'd say Robert's about 40-odd -  maybe 45."
Cambridge Dictionary Online. 

In Modern Literature:

"Laura scanned the hospital chart which had contained the forty-odd hours that the infant had been a patient at Parkside."
The Physicians by Henry Denker.

In News:

"The 40-odd team members include physicists, meteorologists, computer modelers, and health specialists."
Slate Magazine


"The physical condition of the schools was like nothing I'd ever seen in 40-odd years in education,”
Telegraph UK.

"On September 23 at 10 pm, 100-odd people stood outside the Art Gallery of Ontario to see Madonna's secretprojectrevolution"
Now Magazine. 

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