A company consisting of three is worth nothing. It is the Spanish opinion who say that to keep a secret three are too many, and to be merry they are too few. John Collins provides this translation which resembles more closely the English proverb (1834) “Three persons in company are too many for any secret affair, and two few for social ...
Both are correct. You would usually use "A is the oldest of the three" if you were talking about three people from a larger group e.g. three girls who have two brothers, while you would use "A is the oldest of all three" if there were only three in the group e.g. three girls with no brothers.
Three times as many cases of measles were reported in the United States in 2014. vs. Three-times as many cases of measles were reported in the United States in 2014. Is there a difference between the normal and hyphenated versions? Which one is correct?
The correct sentence is: Four pits have been unearthed, three of which contained gold. 'Of which' is correct because you need a possessive form to accurately describe the relationship between the three pits and the gold. Three of the pits contain gold, i.e., the gold is their 'possession' (in the grammatical sense).
Or possibly three times a quarter, which is monthly. You can't redefine a quarter as a third, though. Three times a year is triannual — not triennial which is every three years. You could also say every four months; "every four months" is preferable because it removes the possibility of confusion between triennial and triannual.
The police in Poland arrested three Ukrainian nationals for allegedly attempting to damage IT systems in the country using hacking equipment and for obtaining "computer data of particular ...
In just three months, the massive Aisuru botnet launched more than 1,300 distributed denial-of-service attacks, one of them setting a new record with a peak at 29.7 terabits per second.
