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August 14

"from last one century."

Are the structures "from last one century", "from last one year", correct and standard English? Somehow I see it more often used by Pakistani speakers. Would it be like "since last century" or "since last year"? --C est moi anton (talk) 19:35, 14 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It may be correct in Pakistani English (I can't imagine people just make up such a construction), but it's certainly not correct in standard English. I'd be guessing as to its meaning. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 19:51, 14 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Full context: "Natural languages have been an area of interest from last one century. In the late nineteen sixties and seventies, so many researchers as Noam Chomsky (1965) [5], Maron, M. E. and Kuhns, J. L (1960) [6], Chow, C., & Liu, C (1968) [7] contributed in the area of information retrieval from natural languages. "C est moi anton (talk) 19:53, 14 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"... so many researchers as Noam Chomsky". I presume that means "many researchers, such as Noam Chomsky". -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 19:57, 14 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it stands literally like that in the original article. I assume their mastery of the English language was not that high. Quite amusing for a published work. Authors are one Portuguese and one Pakistani.C est moi anton (talk) 20:48, 14 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]