Timeline for Article usage: "We are offering the product at the price of $20 per pound." Or "at a price of $20 per pound"? [duplicate]
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| Apr 3, 2016 at 17:43 | history | closed |
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Duplicate of At the cost of about or At a cost of about | |
| Apr 3, 2016 at 17:43 | vote | accept | CowperKettle | ||
| Apr 3, 2016 at 17:40 | comment | added | CowperKettle | @AlanCarmack - thank you. I felt like I had posted a question like this before, but a search for "at the price" gave no results, so I went ahead. | |
| Apr 3, 2016 at 17:39 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 3, 2016 at 17:29 | comment | added | 200_success | Careful how you formulate your n-gram. You could also be counting sentences without numbers, like For a limited time, Lufthansa is offering round trips at the price of an equivalent EasyAir ticket. | |
| Apr 3, 2016 at 17:25 | comment | added | Araucaria - Not here any more. | @FumbleFingers Hmmm. What your Ngram seems to show is that the usage hardly differs at all! Virtually nobody uses either of these in writing (though no doubt they come up in speech). There are a maximum of two examples in each period for either one. So the arbitraty two-ness or one-nessor zero-ness of each example at any given period isn't statistically significant in any way. | |
| Apr 3, 2016 at 17:07 | answer | added | user3169 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 3, 2016 at 16:53 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/716670034777604096 | ||
| Apr 3, 2016 at 16:35 | comment | added | zondo | I would say that "We are offering our product to you at $20 (twenty dollars) per pound" sounds more natural than adding "price". | |
| Apr 3, 2016 at 16:17 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | As this NGram which is more specific to your exact context shows, usage is somewhat flexible and preference varies over time. But both are fine, and I think it would be misguided to claim some nuance of difference. | |
| Apr 3, 2016 at 16:09 | history | edited | CowperKettle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 3, 2016 at 16:01 | history | asked | CowperKettle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |