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use of "when" and "that happens" in a sentence

 
 
Reply Thu 5 Dec, 2013 01:17 pm
For a story I'm writing...I have 3 sentences here, and I don't think the last sentence is very elegant and grammatical. I wonder how to make it better.

A birth of twins does not happen very often.

A birth of twins during a solar eclipse only happens once in hundreds of years.

And when a birth of twins happens in a royal family during a total eclipse, thousands of years might elapse before that happens again.

Could you please suggest how to make that last sentence better?

Thank you very much.
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roger
 
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Reply Thu 5 Dec, 2013 03:23 pm
@rogergrass,
Sorry Rog. I don't see anything in need of improvement.
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MontereyJack
 
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Reply Thu 5 Dec, 2013 11:29 pm
the third sentence is the best of the three, (and considering the population of the world and the number of total solar eclipses somewhere in the world, I tend to doubt that the birth of twins during a TSE happens only 'hundreds of years' apart).
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