Common mistake Possible agreement error: numeral + singular countable noun

Possible agreement error: numeral + singular countable noun

One common mistake that many people make in English grammar is the incorrect agreement between a numeral and a singular countable noun. This error occurs when the noun is not pluralized to match the numeral.

For example:

Correct: I have two cats.
Incorrect: I have two cat.

In the incorrect example, the noun "cat" should be pluralized to "cats" to agree with the numeral "two".

This type of agreement error can occur with various numerals, such as "one", "two", "three", "four", etc. It is important to note that when the numeral is used with a singular countable noun, the noun should always be pluralized.

A good way to avoid this mistake is to always remember that numerals typically indicate more than one, and therefore the noun should be in its plural form. Remembering this rule will help you to maintain proper agreement in your sentences.

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Possible agreement error: numeral + singular countable noun mistake examples

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I have five book.

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I have five books.
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I have five books.
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Additionally, there are over 500 college and university chapter.

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Additionally, there are over 500 college and university chapters.
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There are 500 college and university chapter.

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There are 500 college and university chapters.
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There are 400 College and university chapter.

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There are 400 College and university chapters.
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... if we group 5 element in this manner.

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... if we group 5 elements in this manner.
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The maximum allowed height is 32,000 pixel.

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The maximum allowed height is 32,000 pixels.
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The icon changed 2 week ago.

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The icon changed 2 weeks ago.
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The servers crashed because the two billion bid were truly overwhelming.

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The servers crashed because the two billion bids were truly overwhelming.
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In a test of the auction website, the white-hat hackers showed that with a 2 billion bid, they could crash the servers.

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In a test of the auction website, the white-hat hackers showed that with a 2 billion bids, they could crash the servers.
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Five computers plus three computer is eight computers.

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Five computerss plus three computers is eight computerss.
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Three pounds forty and 340 penny are equivalent.

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Three pounds forty and 340 pence|pennies are equivalent.
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Four piece with two hanging toms.
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1777 American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix...
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I have one bottle of wine.
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It has completed 3 server builds.
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Exactly 1 hour!
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I can carry 25 max
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We can use 11 pt font.
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This was despite the fact that Frankfurt already had most of the required facilities and using Bonn was estimated to be 95 million DM more expensive than using Frankfurt.
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A 6.5 to 8 ratio.
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A 2 House Legislature for New York City
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He suggested a $5,000,000 bond.
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Only six thousand.
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S\u0026amp;P 500 index
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He owns a 180,000 house.
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A General Election held on 21 February 2013 returned the DLP to power with a 16 to 14 majority.
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300 to 400 being trained each year.
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They re-released the A1200 and A4000T, and introduced a new 68060 version of the A4000T.
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And 10 cannot name the president's daughter.
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A 100,000 person lower bound has been cited for ASL users.
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Of the 16 to 74 age group, 32.84% had no formal qualifications, 27.08% were educated to 'O' Grade/Standard Grade level, 14.38% to Higher level, 7.64% to HND or equivalent level and 18.06% to degree level.
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A 5,000 year old earthen bowl found in Iran in Shahr-i Sokhta has five images
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A list of assassination targets, with a "$5,000 bounty on his head.
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... in the middle of Silicon Valley, at 1–6 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California.
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What time will we reach Akita if we take the 9:30 train?
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The Cichorioidea has only ray florets, with a 5+0 scheme – all five petals form the ligule.
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It was 30 cm long.
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Fisher later received two Saturn Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress.
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He's a father of three whose wife has passed away.
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They stood face 2 face.
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They expected a cat 3 hurricane.
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But mesage two said he is not available anymore.
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He gave over 1000 baht.
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It's below 60 lux.
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Please make sure there is no P\u0026amp;L or position effect in the crude books with the new 24 hour EOL product.
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The National Hockey League publishes the names of the top three vote getters for all awards, and then names the award winner during the NHL Awards Ceremony.
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The iphone 11 pro max.
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He had 10 ml cycloheximide
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He wears a 9 to 5 outfit.
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Learn now how 2 spell properly.
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In addition, ComEd has included a cover letter which indicates a significant level of uncertainty regarding a '01 interconnect at Plano.
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In the 1835–36 legislative session, he voted to expand suffrage to white males.
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The room 51 movie.
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I will meet you at 5 pm PST.
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5 year guarantee.
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Seven Nation Army
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140,000 died
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800 FOX RUN PKWY
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He received a $2,500 bonus.
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There are around 50 right now.
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One or two mentioned earlier.
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And at 11 my brother was born.
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By 700 BC war between the two Empires became inevitable.
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I have two book readers in my palmtop.
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They had two and half an hour to leave.
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US$10,000 for a single 25 minute episode.
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Thomas Watson at 333 Grant Avenue in San Francisco.
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The 16 year old Ahmad Shah Durrani.
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At its 1864 convention, the Republican Party selected Andrew Johnson.
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The 2007 ceremony was watched by more than 40 million Americans.
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The $6,100,000,000 measure, which was passed last Monday by the Senate...
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Friday's letters asked for a Nov. 15 meeting.
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It takes about 16 Msec. to traverse 25 mm. of tissue.
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He has 500 on the bank and 1,500 still on the side.
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$800 billion economy was envisioned for the 1970s
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Middle East peace after Israel's 1956 invasion of Egypt
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The Apollo 8 mission was well covered in the British documentary.
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Labour abstained in Monday’s ballot, meaning that despite 299 MPs voting in favour and only 70 voting against, the bill failed to get the required 434 votes to pass.
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This is 3 H2O.
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25 mpg highway
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1521 and Master.
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With two Machine Learning Accelerators on the CPU and a new Machine Learning Controller to balance performance and efficiency.
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It has sold for at least 160 euro.
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3 more die in the Indian wars
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2 x wall mounted TV screens
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The primary 911 responder.
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3910 Golf Park Loop, Bradenton, FL 34203
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The concept of six sigma has a simple goal.
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A dramatic series in 1956 saw a record that will probably never be beaten.
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Those with five or six are most common.
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I'll be in my office from ten tomorrow.
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Our #2 vote was Tom Cruise.
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Willard Olvey, 18, of 963 Ponce De Leon Ave., was there last year.
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The World War 2 German bomber rolled down a runway and took off.
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Volume dipped to 3.28 million shares from 3.98 million Monday.
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It is five and seventeen.
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He maintains two and so can the police.
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Last week the board, by a 4 to 3 vote, decided to ask voters.
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Before he was forty Griffith had created the art of the film.
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In the 1860 - 70 decade there are many poems like Revulsion.
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And also a twin 15 mm version based on the Light Tank Mk.
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The right half is split into two silver and black triangles.
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A couple of weeks on the show turned into a job from October to May working on season one specials and the start of season two.
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List of players to wear the number 14 shirt since Johan Cruyff's departure
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She said he would be sixteen next month.
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We can drink beer when you are 21 next month.
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The screen is fixed to the 640 × 400 1-bit mono mode, and no external video port was provided.
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We sleep in a 20 x 40 tent.
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Game board with 108 spaces arranged in a 12 by 9 array
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In the United States, the song peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, paving the way for their first album and their first trip as a group there.
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Since then the corporate headquarters have moved to New York City at 1 Park Avenue in Manhattan, before moving to the Financial District to the former JP Morgan Chase headquarters at 4 New York Plaza.
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It's ten past six.
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In act 5 Friar played the main role.
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The price of rice rose by three percent.
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The MOS Technology 6502 processor is an 8-bit microprocessor.
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Figure 1 shows a MOS 6502 processor in a DIP-40 plastic package.
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Where did you two first meet each other?
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I live in 22761 Hamburg
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He resides in 5 New Jersey Boulevard.
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He was introducing a 3,000 limit per transaction.
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He turns 80 next month.
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He was switching from 32 to 64 bit.
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120 VAC Circuit
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He has a 4 page summary.
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A canal 4 treatment.
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The Windows 10 update failed.
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He has a 5 slide presentation.
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You say the .711 update was working fine for a couple of months.
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Have you installed the iOS 10 version?
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He went to this 5 star restaurant.
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Let's meet on 08 sept.
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This 6 step guide helps you accomplish success.
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We had 200 participants this year and hopefully 300 next year.
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...objects were taken in 1971 when the Mariner 9 probe imaged Phobos and Deimos, the two small moons of ...
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... launch around 2015 the improved Hayabusa 2 space probe and to return asteroid samples by 2020.
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... was commissioned by BMW to paint a Group 4 race version of the then elite supercar BMW M1 for the fourth ...
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... in 1997, before entering into orbit around 433 Eros, finally landing on its surface in 2001.
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... this predates the more famous 1556 book by Agricola...
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Bahamas was hit by a magnitude 6 earthquake.
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As a year 10 student, Ruby Muller, was one of 32 remaining players who participated in a match made up of squads representing the North and South of England.
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Go to slide 8 and click on the link.
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1 turn = 360° = 2π rad = 400 grad = 4 right angles.
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You two hurry up.
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Our new 404 error page
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As 2 of 3 issued
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We meet on the usual 9 pm slot.
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I'm transferring 150 pax to your account.
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A level 7 diploma is a vocational certification focused on professional skills.
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Of those 1,839 buses 416 run on compressed natural gas.
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Of your 9 questions 8 show a complete lack of understanding.
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Earlier than 900 CE progressing past the 13th century, the population complexes ...
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... included production of a small but sturdy 125 cc motorcycle and a DKW delivery van.
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A single drop of water contains about 2 sextillion (2×1021) atoms of oxygen, and twice the number of...
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= 90° = π/2 rad = 1/4 turn = 100 grad.
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He had 6 wrong pattern attempts.
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There were 6 wrong pattern attempts during the test.
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They discussed 3 newer pattern runs in the meeting.
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Only 1 in 12 stay and are happy with our service.
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When they came back with a £33 billion bid, CBS could not refuse.
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But then he got 502 bad gateway.
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Verb: ... and the other two chase her.
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The speedometer was indicating 95 mph.
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Saltini Antonio, Storia delle scienze agrarie, 4 vols, Bologna 1984-89.
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The fictional Hundred Acre Wood of the Pooh stories derives from...
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+1 =16 versus Mikhail Tal, +10 −2 =13 versus Ljubojević.
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... out of which the first four form Greater Athens, while the regional unit...
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Aruba also has 18 radio stations (two AM and 16 FM) and three...
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... which is 72 m2 per head.
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... the 1997 (still) gets 30 highway mpg, the 2004 gets 26 mpg, and the...
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... Olympics with just 20 gold medal wins since first taking part in 1920.
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You can earn 200 bonus bucks.
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There are 101 file sharing services out there already.
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Eighty minus twenty is sixty.
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What is two plus two?
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Is it the same as six minus two?
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Is six minus two the same as seven less three?
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Is six minus two the same as seven less three in your opinion?
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But three plus three was not considered in this context.
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Stages three and four move on to using technology for the...
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Steve McNair has been awesome lately and ranks as the # 2 QB in the league over the last 3 games.
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For example, three pound forty and twenty pound a week are both heard in British English.
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That imbalance of 11,973 due Stingray is correct but is no longer on LRP's books.
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The difference of approximately 10,000 due defect was caused by human error.
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We always wanted to bring 24 hour and weekend long events, and this year we were finally able to!
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I believe EPMI ordered 292,500 MMBtu at an average price of ...
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When Sony came back with a 2 billion bid, CBS could not refuse.
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England eventually faced a massive 707 run target for victory and failed, Australia winning the ...

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