2017年3月8日 · In the following news articles, What the author mean by "bi-weekly"? if it is mean "two weeks" or "twice a week", Why doesn't they use a specific term to make it clear for readers? Niantic was, by its own admission, caught off-guard by the sheer popularity of Pokemon Go, but it has pledged to continue supporting the game with bi-weekly updates.

2020年10月29日 · And yes, biweekly can be used to mean either every two weeks or twice a week. Note: Biweekly, as the meaning says can be used to mean either instance, which will certainly lead to ambiguity. Better avoid it. There is a special word for twice a week occurrence: Semiweekly Occurring twice a week. (North American usage)

2016年12月29日 · Twice / a couple of times / two times; Thrice / three times; Four times; Five times; Six times; Seven times; Eight times; Nine times; Ten times; Note: "a couple" doesn't always mean exactly two, although it often does. As mentioned by Mick in the comments, thrice is quite old fashioned and while most people in the UK would understand, it's not ...

I was on the search if there is a word for three times like once and twice for one and two times. I found an article about thrice: The norm here is to say once (rather than one time), and to say three times (rather than thrice) in current usage. Thrice is definitely old-fashioned, although you may still come across it in certain contexts.

2017年6月16日 · To be explicit in describing a recurring event, it would be usual to add the period of repetition, e.g. the daily / nightly / weekly / monthly / yearly / annual / biannual... event / festival / fair / party.... To describe an event as one that does not repeat, you would say that it is one-off, unique, or in some cases pop-up (e.g. pop-up shop).

When you say "X is twice as Y as Z" (for example "Texas is twice as big as Montana"), there's an implication that Z already has some quality of Y, but X has it twice as much. That is, Montana is big, but Texas is twice as big. With some adjectives (the ones Sam K calls "strong"), this implication is weakened because they're the ordinary ...

2016年9月13日 · +1 this is hard to explain at common usage context, but you did elaborate it well on the last part. That being said, it's noticeable that even in formal technical context, in can be remove/omit if [time period] is referring to a collective time noun(I don't know what should I call it), and in should be implicit if/while using a range of [time period] like, twice in the same month.

2020年7月1日 · There's nothing wrong with twice more than, but you have to be careful about what you're trying to say. If the old phone cost $100, then the following would describe the cost of the new phone: Twice as much: $200. ($100 times two.) Twice more than: $300. ($100 plus twice that.) This expression is equivalent to twice again as much, which is also ...

Because the example includes 'cost' you already know what it is you are comparing, so the use of 'price' becomes redundant. If you omit 'cost', you can structure the sentence the way you ask: 'My new PC is twice the price of my old one'. In your Texas/Montana example, a better comparison would be against: "Texas' area is twice the size of ...

2019年11月22日 · "The size of a room I saw was twice that of mine" - is not quite right. You haven't told us you've seen a room, yet you start talking about its size. We CAN say, "The size of the room was twice that of mine", because you have already told us about seeing a room. But these are all good: The room I saw was twice as big as mine.