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Allisa
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I need your opinion
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Is it possible to use "every seventh person" instead of "one in seven people"? Does it sound natural?
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5 Feb 2010
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libertybelle
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They are not the same.
If you have 7 people in a line and one in seven will lose their jobs, then you still don �t know which one of the seven will lose their job.
If you have seven people in a line and every seventh person will lose their job, then you know which one will be unemployed.
Seventh is an ordinal number:
Ordinal numbers tell the order of things in a set�first, second, third, etc. Ordinal numbers do not show quantity. They only show rank or position.
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5 Feb 2010
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Allisa
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Thank you, Libertybelle! 
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5 Feb 2010
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