Take the 2-minute tour ×  Possible Duplicate: Is it “5-6 weeks
are a lot of time” or “5-6 weeks is a lot of time”?  I am
writing about a baseball player who has 33 at-bats in his
career.  Which is correct:  Yes, 33 career at-bats
qualifies/qualify as a small sample size.  My guess is that it
should be qualify because at-bats is the subject, but it sounds
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FumbleFingers, JeffSahol, simchona, kiamlaluno, Daniel Jun 27
'12 at 23:02   The subject is 33 career at-bats - which is
plural, so qualify is the correct verb form. But people will
often use singular qualifies in a context like this, where that
number of "at-bats" is alternatively described as (singular) "a
small sample size". –  FumbleFingers Jun 18 '12 at 17:20 A
similar question: 5 weeks is vs 5 weeks are –  J.R. Jun 18 '12
at 17:24  2 Answers 2  The argument could be made that there's
an implicit 'having' in the sentence:  Yes, [having] 33 career
at-bats qualifies as a small sample size.  If you b