[stylist] Writing question

[Judith Bron]

I could be wrong, but I would write the house as being 100 years old, using 
the numerals.  She carried two little dogs... writing out the number. 
Judith
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From: "Robert Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
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Subject: [stylist] Writing question


> When in a narrative of a story and you are needing to speak of a number,
> under what circumstances do you use an actual numeral/number verses 
> writing
> out the word? For example- the house is 100 years old. Or- She carried the
> two little dogs up to the seventeenth floor.
>
> Are there rules? Or is it just style?
>
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