1. Around the World in a Hundred Years: From Henry the Navigator to Magellan
2. A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History
These are the titles of books. I would like to ask why the indefinite article is used before the number. When omitting the article would the meaning be different?
Answer
We would not say
Around the World in a Eighty-Six Years.
When dealing with common units of measure: hundreds, thousands, dozens etc., we use the article.
A dozen years
A hundred years
A million years
A thousand years
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