| The American Heritage® Book of English Usage. |
A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English. 1996.
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2. Style: Parallelism, Passives, Redundancy, and Wordiness
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| § 20. inside of |
| People sometimes criticize the construction inside of as redundant or colloquial. But inside of is well established in formal writing, particularly in reference to periods of time: They usually return the manuscript inside of (or inside) a month. | 1 |
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