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Re: halfdecade

At 09:33 04 08 2002 , the following was received:
Regarding:

>If decade is a group or grouping of ten, what is a group of five?

How about a quintet?

Yes, David, that works, but I was looking for a period of years - I thought
of quintile, but the dictionary doesn't agree.

As in a census the ages were rounded down to "the nearest number divisible
by five", but I can't bring myself to write that. <g>

Jim


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