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lady_b88@mail.ru - 22 Oct 2006 18:36 GMT

I have lived in this house since 60-th

OR:

I have been living in this house since 60-th.

OR:
could I say:

I live in this house since 60-th.

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Dan - 22 Oct 2006 19:02 GMT

>I have lived in this house since 60-th

I don't understand what you mean by 60-th. If you mean 60th, then I ask,
the 60th of what?

But you would say, I have lived in this house since THE 60th.

> OR:
>
> I have been living in this house since 60-th.

Again, you would say, I have been living in this house since THE 60th.

> OR:
> could I say:
>
> I live in this house since 60-th.

No, you cannot word it this way.

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lady_b88@mail.ru - 22 Oct 2006 20:22 GMT

> >I have lived in this house since 60-th
> >
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> >
> No, you cannot word it this way.

Thanks a lot.
Surely I mean: since 1967 till today.

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Dan - 22 Oct 2006 21:47 GMT

>Thanks a lot.
>Surely I mean: since 1967 till today.

In that case:

I have lived in this house since the sixties
or alternately (with questionable grammer)
I have lived in this house since the 60s.

and

I have been living in this house since the sixties.
- or, alternately, with questionable grammer -
I have been living in this house since the 60s.

and the last one still doesn't work.

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ranolki - 23 Nov 2006 12:19 GMT

>(with questionable grammer)

And questionable spelling.

ranolki

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