In a decade and decades?

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iamtime

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Hi,

Should I say:

1. in a decade and decades

or

2. in a decade and in decades

or

3. in a decade or decades

in the sentence below?

I have to live longer than I have planned and to grow younger than I have lived, so that you still can remember my youthful face when we meet once more in a decade and decades.

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I have to live longer than I have planned and to grow younger than I have lived, so that you still can remember my youthful face when we meet once more in a decade and decades.

That's a very weird sentence, iamtime. None of your alternatives is correct.

Whilst not understanding the first part of your sentence, you could end it like this:

'. . .when we meet once more in a decade' or

'. . .when we meet once more in two or three decades.'

Even those constructions don't sound natural. I'd say '. . .when we meet again in ten years' or '. . .in 20 or 30 years'.

Rover
 

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Whilst not understanding the first part of your sentence, you could end it like this:

Can we nitpick on your sentences, Rover? :-(
 

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