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Add support for other words ("decade", "fortnight", "century"...)

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#725 opened on Jun 25, 2020

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Description

There are some words that can be added to the library:

  • Decade: 10 years (2 decade --> 20 years, ...)
  • Fortnight: 14 days (Example: "a fortnight ago")
  • Century: 100 years (Example: "a century ago", "two centuries ago")

It's not necessary to put them all in a unique PR, you can submit just one of them. Just take in mind that it should support "next decade", "last decade", "a decade ago", "in a decade", but also "two decades ago".

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Research direction
Study how existing parsing for words like 'day' and 'year' works in the codebase. Add a new pattern for 'decade' following the same approach.
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backend
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