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Numerals
273

but
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
₽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