Jonathan Knibb scripsit:
> Zackly. That was the intention. But now that I look at it, it seems
> faulty in some way. Certainly the hyphen doesn't help. It's one of
> those English English (*) phrases that I haven't quite learned to
> handle properly yet. Should it have a 'the'? I don't know. Ach well.
No, that sense of "under-fives" is perfectly grammatical for me; I just
didn't think of it somehow until it was pointed out to me.
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