Usage examples of "nombre à virgule fixe" in French with translation to English

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Les magazines permettent aux éditeurs de rédiger ce qu'ils veulent et de décider comment le mettre en page par la suite, mais ce magazine donne la priorité à la mise en page et il fixe donc une limite prédéterminée au nombre de mots qu'il contient. Magazines let writers write what they want and decide how to lay it out afterward, but that magazine prioritizes its design, so it sets a predetermined limit on how many words are in it.
Le mot que Mary avait, juste avant la virgule, pour faire rager Tom, était le mot « effacé ». The word that Mary had, just before the comma, to enrage Tom, was the word "erased".
Nous n'avons plus de ligne fixe. We don't have a landline any more.
Les besoins du plus grand nombre l'emportent sur les nécessités du plus petit. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
À quoi sert un point virgule de toutes façons ? What the hell is a semicolon for anyway?
J'ai appelé le téléphone fixe de mon oncle hier. I called at my uncle's house yesterday.
Nombre furent massacrées. Many were slain.
Tatoeba : là où rien ne ruine autant une nuit passionnée de création de phrases qu'une virgule mal placée ou, pire encore, une coquille d'inattention. Tatoeba: Where nothing ruins a passionate night of sentence-making like a poorly placed comma or, even worse, a careless typo.
Ne me fixe pas ainsi. Don't stare at me like that.
Le nombre d'universitaires est en augmentation. The number of college students is increasing.
Il me regarda avec consternation, en disant qu'il devait mettre une virgule quelque part. He looked at me with consternation, saying that he must put a comma somewhere.
J'ai appelé le fixe de mon oncle hier. I called at my uncle's house yesterday.
Douze est un nombre pair. Twelve is an even number.
C'est efficace à quatre-vingt-dix-neuf virgule quatre-vingt-dix-neuf pour cent. It's 99.9% effective.
Il y avait un nombre incalculable d'étoiles dans le ciel. There were countless stars in the sky.
Je considérerai votre suggestion si vous pouvez me réfèrer à un manuel stylistique qui intime la présence d'une virgule en ce cas. I will entertain your suggestion, if you can refer me to a style guide that dictates a comma in this case.
L'OMS a un projet de réduction de l'utilisation néfaste de l'alcool. Il inclue l'augmentation des taxes sur l'alcool, la réduction du nombre de points de vente d'alcool et l'augmentation de l'âge légal de consommation. Des fonctionnaires déclarent que d'autres mesures incluent des législations efficaces contre la conduite en état d'ivresse et l'interdiction des publicités pour les alcools. The WHO has a plan to reduce the harmful use of alcohol. It includes raising taxes on alcohol, reducing the number of places to buy alcohol and raising the drinking age. Officials say other measures include effective drunk driving laws and banning some alcohol advertising.
C'est efficace à nonante-neuf virgule nonante-neuf pour cent. It's 99.9% effective.
Nous fûmes surpassées en nombre. We were outnumbered.
Les quarante pour cent de la population des USA les plus modestes ne détiennent que zéro virgule trois pour cent de la richesse. The bottom 40% of the U.S. population has only 0.3% of the wealth.
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