oxford_guide_to_english_grammar

23 NUMBERS AND MEASUREMENTS PAGE 250
b
We say the year like this.
1995 'nineteen ninety-five' 1763 'seventeen sixty-three'
347 'three forty-seven' 1500 'fifteen hundred'
1801 'eighteen oh one' 2000 '(the year) two thousand'
NOTE Other expressions are the 1980s ('the nineteen eighties'), and a man in his fifties.
196 Some other measurements
1 Money
30p 'thirty pence' 20c 'twenty cents'
'thirty p' /pi:/ $10 'ten dollars'
£1.00 'a/one pound' $12.50 'twelve (dollars) fifty'
£2.50 'two pound(s) fifty'
'two fifty'
a Fora hundred pounds we write £100. NOT a £100
b We can talk about a fifty-pence coin or a fifty, a twenty-pound note or a twenty.
Have you got a ten pound note? Can I have the money in tens, please?
2 Length
6ft 2ins/6'2" 'six feet/foot two
inches'
100 yards 'a hundred yards'
20 miles 'twenty miles'
190cm
100m
30km
'a hundred and ninety
centimetres'
'a hundred metres'
'thirty kilometres'
3 Weight
½lb 'half a pound'
2lbs 'two pounds'
4 Liquid measure
1 pint 'a pint'
6 gallons 'six gallons'
250g 'two hundred and fifty grams'
1kg 'a kilo/kilogram'
½ litre 'half a litre'
30 litres 'thirty litres'
5 Temperature
60°F 'sixty degrees (Fahrenheit)'
NOTE
We use zero for freezing point.
The temperature will fall below zero.
15°C 'fifteen degrees (Celsius)'