English term
at ___
[what is meant by at ___, phone number or location?]
| 3 +7 | phone number |
Terry Richards
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| 4 +4 | at telephone number |
Yvonne Gallagher
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| 4 +1 | hospital or clinic |
Shera Lyn Parpia
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| 4 -1 | location |
acetran
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Jun 2, 2014 09:17: writeaway changed "Field (specific)" from "Medical (general)" to "General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters"
Jun 2, 2014 12:47: Ildiko Santana changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Non-PRO (3): Edith Kelly, mchd, Ildiko Santana
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France
30 years in IT, Engineering degree.
Native in: English (Variants: British, UK, US) 
Works in: French to English, English
phone number
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Note added at 37 mins (2014-06-02 09:02:41 GMT)
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I just checked with my American wife and she is 100% certain that in US English you call somebody at 999-999-9999. Can the asker confirm that this is US English?
Italy
translating meaning, not just words
Native in: English
Works in: English to Italian, Italian to English, English
hospital or clinic
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Tania McConaghy
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writeaway
: could just as well -and perhaps more likely- be the phone no. or email address etc. imo improbable that they expect people to show up on the doorstep or write a letter for an urgent question that needs an immediate reply
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Tony M
: Impossible to tell, really ... but 'at a place' is possibly more likely... / Yes — but there's no way of being sure that that's where they are being told to contact; and as others have pointed out, if it's US, then it could be a phone no.
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Isn't the trial likely to be conducted at a hospital or clinic?
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Ireland
right word, right place. everytime
Native in: English (Variants: US, Canadian, Irish, UK) 
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, English, and 1 more.
at telephone number
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Note added at 39 mins (2014-06-02 09:05:15 GMT)
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bit of discussion about "at" and "one" here
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=854369
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Note added at 41 mins (2014-06-02 09:07:30 GMT)
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sorry should be "at" and "on" above
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Tony M
: I'd certainly have expected it to be a phone number, but surely for that we'd more normally say 'on 12345'? / OK, I didn't know about that US usage, but certainly in the UK, I've rarely if ever heard 'at'.
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here we say both "on/at" and in US it's "at"
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writeaway
: more than likely. at is US English but afaik, only UK uses on /I really doubt they expect people needing a reply in this context to show up on the doorstep or write a letter........
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Thanks! Yes, I'd have been certain of phone number before but these days a website is often given for the contact details. Might be possible to clarify from other context
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Charles Davis
: Probably phone number, possibly email address, possibly location (less likely, I'd say). Or perhaps "your earliest convenience" :)
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Thanks Charles. My immediate thought was phone number in this context
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Trudy Peters
: definitely phone number if US
11 hrs
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Thanks Trudy:-)
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airmailrpl
: phone number
16 hrs
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many thanks Airmailpl:-)
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