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If a bus comes to the stop at an interval of 15 minutes, can I say?:

-The rate of the bus to XYZ Estate is 15 minutes.
-What's the rate of the bus to XYZ Estate?

Are there alternatives?

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[+3] - McTag - 02/24/2014 Look and learn, Bobsal. That's the master being a proper prat.
[+3] - McTag - 02/24/2014 You, on the other hand, would encourage foreigners to trip over ever more cumbersome phrases. I've seen you at it. Unnecessary overcomplication is your stock-in-trade. Less is often more....
[+3] - McTag - 02/25/2014 You exhibit your gift for inaccurate summary, and willful misapprehension. As I have often pointed out to you before (so sorry about "repetition", but still hopeful something might...

@WBYeats,

Make a simple declarative sentence.The bus arrives at XWZ estates every 15 minutes. Why waste your time describing an 'interval', when the most important information being imparted is when the bus stops?

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@WBYeats,

WBYeats wrote:

If a bus comes to the stop at an interval of 15 minutes, can I say?:

-The rate of the bus to XYZ Estate is 15 minutes.
-What's the rate of the bus to XYZ Estate?

Are there alternatives?

The bus companies in the UK would probably say something like "the bus service frequency to the XYZ Estate is every fifteen minutes (or four times an hour)". A person asking about this might ask "How often do buses run to the XYZ Estate?"

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@WBYeats,

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If a bus comes to the stop at an interval of 15 minutes, can I say?:

That is slightly puzzling, as it has two different meanings.
But you seem to be asking about frequency, as suggested.

You could say, "How often do the buses stop?"
"What's the frequency of the (bus) service?"
"How many buses per hour are there?"

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@McTag,

Keep it simple.

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@bobsal u1553115,

That's about as simple as simple can be. Isn't it?

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@WBYeats,

WB the bus comes every 15 minutes

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@WBYeats,

If a bus comes to the stop at an interval of 15 minutes, can I say?:

If a bus arrives at a certain/particular stop every 15 minutes, can I say?:

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@McTag,

Not quite as simple as: "The bus arrives at XWZ estates every 15 minutes."

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@contrex,

Thank you all~

For Contrex's answer/sentence:
-"the bus service frequency to the XYZ Estate is every fifteen minutes "

If XYZ is a name like Kanagawa, Conventry, Peiping etc., do you not think THE should be omitted?

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@WBYeats,

WBYeats wrote:

If a bus comes to the stop at an interval of 15 minutes, can I say?:

-The rate of the bus to XYZ Estate is 15 minutes.
-What's the rate of the bus to XYZ Estate?

Are there alternatives?

Most often, I 'd be said:
the bus stops there every 15 minutes.

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@WBYeats,

WBYeats wrote:

Thank you all~

For Contrex's answer/sentence:
-"the bus service frequency to the XYZ Estate is every fifteen minutes "

If XYZ is a name like Kanagawa, Conventry, Peiping etc., do you not think THE should be omitted?

In Britain (at least) we have industrial estates, housing estates etc and when we refer to them we generally use 'the'.

The Bournville Estate is in Weston-Super-Mare.

The London County Council opened the Boundary Estate in 1900.

The 7500 residents of the Aylesbury Estate in south London

The Pepys Estate is a social housing estate in the Deptford area of Lewisham

The Heygate estate in Walworth

One elderly lady on the Bournville Estate

One-tenth of the Bournville estate

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@bobsal u1553115,

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Not quite as simple as: "The bus arrives at XWZ estates every 15 minutes."

I see we've got a JTT apprentice here, set on making senseless nitpicking useless utterances.

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@McTag,

I think Bobsal was making fun of your oft repeated inanity, "Keep it simple",
McTag. The one you go to when you find yourself out of your depth, which happens much too often for a "language expert".

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@JTT,

No, I think he was being a prat. Time will tell whether he is a thorough-going prat like you, or whether it was a momentary lapse in judgement and taste. Wink

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@McTag,

No, I think Bobsal was making fun of your oft repeated inanity, "Keep it simple", McTag. The one you go to when you find yourself out of your depth, which happens much too often for a "language expert".

But it doesn't surprise me that you, once again, take your typical avoidance routine.

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@JTT,

Look and learn, Bobsal. That's the master being a proper prat.

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@McTag,

And you would think, Bobsal, that the grand purveyor of the inanity - Keep it simple - would have avoided drawing attention to it and himself.

He's certainly cute but I'm afraid he is a couple bricks short of a load.

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@JTT,

You, on the other hand, would encourage foreigners to trip over ever more cumbersome phrases. I've seen you at it. Unnecessary overcomplication is your stock-in-trade. Less is often more. "Keep it simple" is a good adage, for the learners we deal with here.
Anyway I don't have to justify myself to you, no matter how annoying you set out to be. Remember you're a prat.

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@McTag,

McTag: Anyway I don't have to justify myself to you,

You could have saved yourself a lot of typing, Sire.

I especially like the part where you simply repeat yourself. That is scholarship!

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