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Latest post Tue, Nov 3 2009 2:40 AM by Mister Micawber. 1 replies.
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pleasehelp  +  960183 Mon, 02 Nov 09 11:12 PM
I don't think six years count as an era.  Or


I don't think six years counts as an era.


What I heard was the second sentence but shouldn't it be the first one since years is plural.
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Mister Micawber  +  960304 Tue, 03 Nov 09 02:40 AM
The second is correct, since the sentence is speaking of the single quantity of years as being / not being one era.  If you use the plural, then we might think someone was considering each year as a separate era!
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