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Adjective order: news of the past three/three past hours



 
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Adjective order: news of the past three/three past hours #1 (permalink) Mon Sep 11, 2006 0:56 am   Adjective order: news of the past three/three past hours
 

Please read:

1. This is the news of the past three hours.

2. This is the news of the three past hours.

I think both are correct. How about your opinion? What is the rule?

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Adjective order: news of the past three/three past hours #2 (permalink) Mon Sep 11, 2006 14:20 pm   Adjective order: news of the past three/three past hours
 

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The past three hours. Here, the three hours is a single hunk of time.
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