大学英语：带确定数量词的名词词组作主语时的主谓一致

(1)当主语是表示数目、时间、重量、距离等的复数名词时，如果该名词所表示的数量看作一个整体，其后的动词用单数。

Four years is too long for me to wait.

Sixty miles is a short run in a car.

(2)当主语是表示数目、时间、重量、距离等的复数名词时，如该名词所表示的数量看作单个个体，其后的动词用复数。

The past three weeks were the hardest time in his life.

Hundreds of buildings were put up in the city last year.

(3)当主语为“分数或百分数+of+名词”时，其后的动词形式依照of后名词的单复数形式来定。

Thirty percent of the oil in that country is imported.

Ten percent of the eggs have gone bad.

（4）当主语为sheep,fish,deer,aircraft,means,steelworks等单数与复数同形的词时，动词的形式以名词单、复数意义为准。

Three aircraft are reported missing.

Ten fish have been caught today.