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"a major two-day auction" "Two-day" is an adjective here, written as one word. "a major two days' auction"" two days' " is a possessive form ("an auction of two days"). First variant is more common to use.
1. in two days time = when the delivery will occur. within two days = implies there is a limit. No later than two days. You must do this task in two days. [usually, two days from some date or you have two days to do it.] You must do this task within two days. [we don't know when those days will be and it sets a time limit on how long you can take.]
21 1 1 3. 2. Is if you're treating the two days as a single length of time; are if you're treating them as multiple lengths of time. – Lawrence. Jun 18, 2017 at 15:32.
It says that they "went" on two days, which suggests that they took two trips out on the boat, one on each day. If you take a trip that lasts for two days, you only "go" once. It is quite correct then to say that they were unlucky "on the two days", because they had the same experience on each of those days. Share. Improve this answer.
No. Two days later is relative to some point in time which must be specified. If you mean two days from the current time, you say "in two days" or "two days from now." Bring it back to me in two days. You can borrow it on Wednesday and bring it back to me two days later.
Sentence 2 – over. The rainfall has gone down over the past two days. This sentence has at least two meanings that I can see: That the amount of rain that is falling has, over the past two days, decreased; or. That, in comparison to the volume of rain that fell in some other time frame, the volume of rain that fell over the past two days was ...
1. Ram called me 2 days later, after going Home. Clearly, "later" and "after" are relative to two different things. We use "later" when following on from some other statement about an established time, so I would presume that this sentence followed details of some time spent with Ram away from his home. Ram and I spent all of Saturday together ...
You could say, "I will go to school for 4 years." So when you say you will "delay for two days", you are telling someone how long you will be in the act of delaying. "I wanted to delay this meeting by two days" is less common, but it works. It means that the time measurement for the delay you wanted is two days.
Within is regarded as specifying an upper limit: within two days means maybe today, maybe tomorrow, but no later than two days from now. In is sometimes regarded as more precise: in two days could mean two days from now – particularly with a scheduled event, such as a party. That said, there are exceptions where the word in can be more ambiguous.
2. The abbreviation QOD or QAD (from Latin mean Quaque Alternis Die") means 'every other day' or 'every two days'. Modern style in medical situations recommends using using the spelled out English 'every other day' because the Latin abbreviations are often misread. Share. Improve this answer.