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Offline Uncle Mort

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How many is 'several'?
« on: September 05, 2007, 12:40:05 PM »
Just read This on BBC piece about the arrests in Germany.

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Last summer, two suitcase bombs were planted on commuter trains in several German towns but they failed to explode.

Two bombs in several towns?

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Re: How many is 'several'?
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2007, 12:41:27 PM »
 rubschin: Several = more than one, it would seem.

Sloppy reporting/editing if you ask me.
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Re: How many is 'several'?
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2007, 12:41:59 PM »
one = one
two = a couple
few = three
several = four or more

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Re: How many is 'several'?
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2007, 12:42:05 PM »
Just read This on BBC piece about the arrests in Germany.

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Last summer, two suitcase bombs were planted on commuter trains in several German towns but they failed to explode.

Two bombs in several towns?
Perhaps there were two bombs on two trains but the trains were moving and passed through several towns?  whistle:
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Re: How many is 'several'?
« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2007, 12:42:21 PM »
It's the decline of the Beeb again. I heard a woman pronounce Sibelius as Cyber lee us yesterday noooo:
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Re: How many is 'several'?
« Reply #5 on: September 05, 2007, 12:43:27 PM »
It's the decline of the Beeb again. I heard a woman pronounce Sibelius as Cyber lee us yesterday noooo:

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Re: How many is 'several'?
« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2007, 12:56:27 PM »
Perhaps there were two bombs on two trains but the trains were moving and passed through several towns?  whistle:

I looked, two bombs, two trains, two towns (Dortmund and Koblenz)

sloppy english.

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Re: How many is 'several'?
« Reply #7 on: September 05, 2007, 01:00:03 PM »
one = one
two = a couple
few = three
several = four or more

In my mind 'several' = anything more than two.
Few = not enough noooo:
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Re: How many is 'several'?
« Reply #8 on: September 05, 2007, 01:16:16 PM »
one = one
two = a couple
few = three
several = four or more

In my mind 'several' = anything more than two.
Few = not enough noooo:

Few is never enough!! Would three chocolates be enough? I think not!!  eeek:

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Re: How many is 'several'?
« Reply #9 on: September 05, 2007, 01:17:54 PM »
one = one
two = a couple
few = three
several = four or more

In my mind 'several' = anything more than two.
Few = not enough noooo:

How about "a shed load"?

Is that the amount that would tumble off a large lorry on a bend, or the most you could shove in a small wooden hut?
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Re: How many is 'several'?
« Reply #10 on: September 05, 2007, 01:19:02 PM »
one = one
two = a couple
few = three
several = four or more

In my mind 'several' = anything more than two.
Few = not enough noooo:

How about "a shed load"?

Is that the amount that would tumble off a large lorry on a bend, or the most you could shove in a small wooden hut?

That would be the right amount of chocolate, diamonds, profiterols so yes that's a good amount.

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Re: How many is 'several'?
« Reply #11 on: September 05, 2007, 02:03:52 PM »
Changed:

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Last summer, two identical suitcase bombs were planted on two commuter trains in the German cities of Dortmund and Koblenz but they failed to explode.

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Re: How many is 'several'?
« Reply #12 on: September 05, 2007, 02:15:24 PM »
don't mention the war

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Re: How many is 'several'?
« Reply #13 on: September 06, 2007, 07:05:47 AM »
How about "a shed load"?
Is that the amount that would tumble off a large lorry on a bend, or the most you could shove in a small wooden hut?

Quite simply a shed load = too much

Doesn't matter where it came from or where you could store it - it  would all be superfluous so it doesn't matter.
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Re: How many is 'several'?
« Reply #14 on: September 06, 2007, 07:08:41 AM »
How about "a shed load"?
Is that the amount that would tumble off a large lorry on a bend, or the most you could shove in a small wooden hut?

Quite simply a shed load = too much

Doesn't matter where it came from or where you could store it - it  would all be superfluous so it doesn't matter.
Indeed?

If you had a shed-load you?d have to put a bloody good lock on it too.  whistle:
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