In the above examples, the numerical adjectives hundred-foot, fifty-day and fifteen-day act as adjectives and describe journey, war and forecast respectively.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract To investigate forms and functions of imprecise numerical expressions in biomedical slide talks, tokens were extracted from fifty-two talks ...

They go hand in hand, words and numbers, the two fundamental constituents of expression—meaning information and thought. They are inseparable in our everyday lives, and in this essay I explore the ...