politica española ha sido más efectiva. La confrontación nunca en política resuelve nada. Creo que el cambio sí ha favorecido... que en Cuba hubiera más receptividad en las autoridades cubanas.

_El País_ , 1 Dec. 2004, 33e

_Le Monde_ reported that 'Raúl Rivero a exprimé sa "gratitude éternelle" envers le gouvernement espagnol'.

In the second example the original wording, including the French rendering of a Spanish name, has been reproduced exactly, but French quotation marks and italicization of quotations ( _« gratitude éternelle »_ ) have been adapted to British conventions.

Sometimes it seems desirable both to retain the original—perhaps because its exact sense or flavour cannot be captured by a translation— and to provide an English version for readers unfamiliar with the language in question. It is always worth asking inmiles of path is a lot to repave

More than 5,000 people is a large attendance

When used as the subject of a quantity, words like _number, percentage_ , and _proportion_ are singular with a definite article and plural with an indefinite:

The percentage of people owning a mobile phone is higher in Europe

A proportion of pupils are inevitably deemed to have done badly

_None_ in the sense _no one person_ takes the singular:

Later, 26 children and one teacher went to hospital, but none was seriously injured

but in the sense of _not any_ takes the plural verb:

He had hoped to receive parking permits for residents but none were forthcoming

The numerals _hundred, thousand, million, billion, trillion_ , etc. are singular unless they refer to indefinite quantities:

two dozen  | about three hundred 