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Numerals


 * tenpenny nail
 * fourfold
 * three-ply
 * five votes
 * six bales
 * two dozen
 * one gross
 * zero miles
 * seven-story building

k. Money:


 * $3.65; $0.75; 75 cents; 0.5 cent
 * $3 (not $3.00) per 200 pounds
 * 75 cents apiece
 * Rs32,25,644 (Indian rupees)
 * 2.5 francs or fr2. 5
 * 65 yen
 * &#8381;265


 * but
 * two pennies
 * three quarters
 * one half
 * six bits, etc.

1. Percentage:


 * 12 percent; 25.5 percent; 0.5 percent (or one-half of 1 percent)
 * thirty-four one hundredths of 1 percent
 * 3.65 bonds; 3.65s; 5-20 bonds; 5-20s; 4½s; 3s
 * 50-50 (colloquial expression)
 * 5 percentage points
 * a 1,100-percent increase, or an 1100-percent increase

m. Proportion:


 * 1 to 4
 * 1-3-5
 * 1:62,500

n. Time (see also Clock time):


 * 6 hours 8 minutes 20 seconds
 * 10 years 3 months 29 days
 * 7 minutes
 * 8 days
 * 4 weeks
 * 1 month
 * 3 fiscal years; third fiscal year
 * 1 calendar year
 * millennium

but
 * four centuries
 * three decades
 * three quarters (9 months)
 * statistics of any one year
 * in a year or two
 * four afternoons
 * one-half hour
 * the eleventh hour