Happy for the Rhinos and us. This sentence structure though…
I don’t want to puzzle out of this is right or wrong- but Zero anything happening for the forest time in 2022 would have never happened before because for something to happen, or not happen, for the first time, in 2022:
1. The year must be 2022AD, which only occurs once as we know it- you can’t have 0 rhinos poached in 2022 if the year is 1977 because 45 years before would be zero rhinos poached in 1977.
2. It must be the first time something happens or doesn’t happen- which- by definition the first time something happens that thing hasn’t happened before or else or wouldn’t be the first time it had happened; If we ignore the “in 2022” on focus on “in 45 years,” any second or fractional second where a Rhino isn’t being poached is a time when Rhino aren’t being poached- meaning there are more times in 45 years where Rhino are not poached than when they are….
.. you’d have to poach beyond hundreds of billions of Rhinos every day non stop for the number of instances where a Rhino was poached to even approach the number where they are not poached. In this same vein- unless a Rhino is poached at the exact moment the year strikes midnight on new years- we can say that is the first time in that year 0 Rhinos were poached. If someone then poached a rhino the instant after the year began, that would be the first time a rhino was poached that year, and then if in the next instance another rhino wasn’t poached, we could say that was the second time in that year 0 rhinos were poached. We could not sad 0 HAD been poached as it would still be one.
If we wanted to refer to the year as a scope, “in” works so much as it can refer to within,
But given that the rest of the structure is so ambiguous we just can’t say. Less ambiguously we could say:
“2022 is the first year in 45 years where not a single Indian Rhino was poached.”
2022 is a year “in” a 45 year span, it is the first year in that span in which no Indian Rhino were poached. There are other ways to do it too, but this classic antecedent exercise:
“He entered a room, in the center was a lamp, it was 20 meters by ten meters wide…”
Wow. Big lamp. No. The room. We are describing the size of the room. The room is the subject. Everything after is us describing the room, but we placed the part of the sentence that “acts” on the noun and was intended to act on the subject, after another noun which it would also act upon. Of course most people could figure out that the dimensions referred to the room, but that sentence would generally be an example of poor writing.
Anyway- I am happy for the rhinos and the sharing and I am not picking on anyone- just mentioning.
I don’t want to puzzle out of this is right or wrong- but Zero anything happening for the forest time in 2022 would have never happened before because for something to happen, or not happen, for the first time, in 2022:
1. The year must be 2022AD, which only occurs once as we know it- you can’t have 0 rhinos poached in 2022 if the year is 1977 because 45 years before would be zero rhinos poached in 1977.
2. It must be the first time something happens or doesn’t happen- which- by definition the first time something happens that thing hasn’t happened before or else or wouldn’t be the first time it had happened; If we ignore the “in 2022” on focus on “in 45 years,” any second or fractional second where a Rhino isn’t being poached is a time when Rhino aren’t being poached- meaning there are more times in 45 years where Rhino are not poached than when they are….
If we wanted to refer to the year as a scope, “in” works so much as it can refer to within,
“2022 is the first year in 45 years where not a single Indian Rhino was poached.”
2022 is a year “in” a 45 year span, it is the first year in that span in which no Indian Rhino were poached. There are other ways to do it too, but this classic antecedent exercise:
“He entered a room, in the center was a lamp, it was 20 meters by ten meters wide…”
Wow. Big lamp. No. The room. We are describing the size of the room. The room is the subject. Everything after is us describing the room, but we placed the part of the sentence that “acts” on the noun and was intended to act on the subject, after another noun which it would also act upon. Of course most people could figure out that the dimensions referred to the room, but that sentence would generally be an example of poor writing.
Anyway- I am happy for the rhinos and the sharing and I am not picking on anyone- just mentioning.