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Exercises 1.2 A: write down the numbers you hear in the following sentences.
The earliest known inhabitants established settlement in Scotland in 6000BC.
Scotland is 275 miles long and its broadest point only 152 miles wide.
Edinburgh averages 140 days of rain a year, with an average of 1.89 and 2.72 inches in January and July respectively.
Its average temperature in summer is 65 degrees Fahrenheit or 18 degrees Centigrade.
Its average temperature in winter is 43 degrees Fahrenheit or 6 degrees Centigrade.
The original Celtic language, Gaelic, is understood by less than 2% of the Scottish population.
In 1992, polls showed that 1 out of 2 Scots favored independence from England.
Edinburgh zoo, with Scotland’s largest animal collection, is set amid 197.6 hectares of parkland.
Robert Burns, Scotland’s most revered poet, was born on Jan. 25, 1759 in a cottage in Allowway.
There are more than 440 golf courses in Scotland, the game being played as long ago as 1400.
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