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Beginning of Sentence, Title, Subtitle 

Beginning of Sentence, Title, Subtitle
Chapter:
Units of Measure
Author(s):

Phil B. Fontanarosa

and Stacy Christiansen

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date: 20 April 2018

A unit of measure that follows a number at the beginning of a sentence, title, or subtitle should not be abbreviated, even though the same unit of measure is abbreviated if it appears elsewhere in the same sentence. (See , Numbers and Percentages, Spelling Out Numbers, Beginning a Sentence, Title, Subtitle, or Heading; and , Numbers and Percentages, Spelling Out Numbers, Common Fractions.) |
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