Математика. Числительные. Аристова В.М. - 18 стр.

На втором этаже.                    On the first floor (on the 1st floor).
На третьем этаже.                   On the second floor (on the 2-d floor).


    В несколько раз, больше, меньше (times, -fold)
    В два раза больше: о предметах, величине, объеме:
This table is two times larger (bigger).
That square is ten times greater.
    О весе: heavier (тяжелее):
Honey is two times heavier than the water.
This box is three-fold heavier than that one.
The construction of this bridge must be strengthened five-fold.
    Больше, меньше, старше, моложе на
Муж старше на 5 лет — The husband is older by five years / The husband is five
years older.
My elder sister is younger than her husband by 10 years.
Повышение цен на 12 фунтов — A rise of prices by 12 pounds.


                      Numbers for clothes and foot — wear sizes.
    Measurements around the parts of the body may be in inches or centimetres:
    She is 36-24-36 — means that she is 36 inches round the bust, 24 inches round the
waist, 36 inches round the hips;
    She is 91-61-91 — means: 96 cm round the bust, 61 cm round the waist, 91 cm
round the hips.
    As to the person the word "tall" (not "high") is used "My mother is 5 foot/feet six
inches tall (5 ft 6 in = 5'6")" or "My mother is one metre sixty- e ight centimetres tall"
(1 m 68 cm / 1• 68 m).
    Strange as it may seem, there is no unification in determining the sizes of human
bodies. Here is a comparative table of women's and men's sizes for clothes and foot-
wear:
Sizes (sz.) for:
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