2011年6月26日 · Recent posts have moved the goalposts. The original sentence was "A large quantity of books is/are interesting". I suggest that there is a subtle difference between quantity and number. A quantity is, to me, a singular thing, whereas a number (although I concede it has 'a' in front of it) can be seen as plural.

2020年5月20日 · Should the verb following "a ... quantity of" be in singular form or plural form? Or both are correct? e.g. A large quantity of products is/are made in this factory every day. And what about quantities? e.g. Large quantities of food [is/are] wasted every day in …

2020年2月7日 · "Quantity" wouldn't sound natural there either. You use quantity for things that need to be measured and not counted. "The quantity of iron ore mined every year has been increasing." This would sound more natural, though - "The amount of iron ore mined every year has been increasing."

2014年4月30日 · EA is for EACH. Unit is some defined quantity--per pound, per liter, etc.

2008年10月7日 · If I am translating a text and work too quickly, I may have lots of pages (quantity) finished at the end of the day, but they will be of poor quality because I was working too quickly. Haste makes waste. I am sure there are other idioms as well.

2013年12月29日 · On the other hand a liberal estimate would be one that is cautious to avoid underestimating the quantity in question. For example a conservative estimate of the number of Buddhists in China is about 500,000,000 whereas a less …

2018年8月29日 · Furthermore, "pieces" refers to the lowest-level separate items, whereas "quantity" or "number" could refer to an intermediate package size. Thus, the outer box of pencils in post #5 could have been labelled to say it contains 12 packs, in which case "quantity" could refer to the number of packs or the number of pencils (for example: "qty 12 ...

2008年3月20日 · I am positive my mother and my grandmother used "cube" in that way. I have my grandmother's old recipe box containing a number of recipes that use "cube" as the quantity (along with a few other imprecise measurements such as dash, dollop, smidgeon, and "just a bit"). Thank you Cagey, for your post and the link.

2023年11月16日 · (2) The quantity of time spent on mobile calls started at about 200 in 1995. (3) In the latter half of the period, the quantity of sawn wood continued to sink, reaching approximately 130 million in 2000. (4) The quantity of money expended on health dropped from about 8 billion dollars in 1980 to 7 billion in 1984.

2017年5月21日 · Hello, does anyone know what ST stands for? It appears in a Bill of lading under the section "number and kind of packages". "1 ¤ 20ST"