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Guest, 5 yr 230 days ago
In the AAMT Book of Style, used as the standard for medical transcriptionists, expressions of time, measurement, and money are as follows:

20 weeks' gestation
30 degrees' flexion
A few cents' worth
A month's supply

So, singular would be: "In one week's time" and pleural would be: "In two weeks' time"
Guest, 5 yr 154 days ago
pleural would be: "In two weeks' time"


No. . . . PLURAL would be "in two weeks' time." Pleural would be related to the walls of the thorax, as in a "pleural effusion."
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Anonymous, 3 yr 262 days ago
I'd say 36 weeks. I'm having my daughter at 36 weeks gestation via c-section. How much did he weigh? --Jennifer
Anonymous, 243 days ago

I always put 36 weeks' gestation as weeks is a pronoun in this instance.  Does anyone else have an idea about this? Teresa

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