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The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 9.2 - In our time for the textbook Speakout Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

Put the words and phrases in order from the shortest to the longest periods. Use a dictionary to help you.

Answer

  • a fortnight
  • a decade = the nineteen-seventies / eighties (1970w, 1980s) = the seventies / eighties (70s / 80s)
  • a generation = a quarter-century
  • an era = an age
  • a century
  • a millennium