Dec 25, 2018 · Would you think "the next 10 days" includes today? If not, would there be a clearer way to put it, to refer to today and the following 9 days?

There's also the perennial question of whether the last day ends on the multiple of 24 hours from the time when the deadline was given, if it means midnight of that day, or closing time of that day, or …

Dec 5, 2011 · 0 Today is Monday. Last week is strictly the period of seven days ending at midnight on Sunday and the last two weeks is strictly the period of fourteen days ending at midnight on Sunday. …

Aug 16, 2011 · What does until mean in the following? You need to deliver this product within 2 days (until August 18, 2011) to meet your deadline and get paid. Does this mean that I have to deliver the …

Feb 3, 2012 · 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 …

Hence, if within two working days were said on a Thursday, it would probably mean before the end of Monday. In conclusion, the expression within the next two days does not have an exact meaning, but …

I understand that you can say, "within 30 days of receiving your application", but I am seeing more and more "within 30 days after your application is received". Is the latter grammatical?

Jan 5, 2016 · I often use Google hit counts as a rough measure of how valid an expression is. In the case of " no later than" vs " not later than", Google finds 25 vs 12 million hits, indicating that both …

The Corpus of Contemporary American English does have a few cites for now days, but frankly, just look at the figures yourself: nowadays 3167 now days 7 And here are the figures from the British National …

May 23, 2017 · So let's say today is Monday and there will be a party on Friday. How should I say when the party is: the party is in 3 days or the party is in 4 days? Also, is this sequence of time periods c...