Objecting to a preposition

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Mar 7 19:58:53 UTC 2014


>From my high school's alumni newsletter:

"... the first Junior Billiken to make a U.S. Olympic team _for_ more than
50 years ..."

That should be "in," right? Right?!

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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