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In message  <9412192327.aa22979@punt.demon.co.uk> cbogart@quetzal.com writes:
> 1) How do you say "seven years ago"?  I can do it awkwardly with "temci"
> (something like: ca le se temci be le zemei nanca bei le cabdei) but I can't
> think of anything simpler.  I don't like "pu le zemei nanca" because it
> means 'before seven years', but it doesn't say *which* seven years, so it
> doesn't seem logically correct.

co'a lo nanca be li ze

Of course, this just means "at the start of a period of seven years" -
perhaps {puco'a}.

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Iain Alexander (ia@stryx.demon.co.uk)