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Both of these seem very similar to me. Is there any difference between "books translated to English" and "books translated in English"?
Google search returns many results for both (> 400,000), though "translated to English" gives more results than "translated in English". If only one of them is correct, then why the confusion?
I have heard both, and probably use both myself undistinguishly. My usual sources conflict on that one, actually. The New Oxford American Dictionary, which is, well, American, says:
at short (or a moment's) notice
with little warning or time for preparation: tours may be canceled at short notice.
On the other hand, Merriam-Webster’s says
- (US) We can be ready on short notice. = (Brit) We can be ready at short notice.
- (US) Thank you for meeting with me on such short notice. = (Brit) Thank you for meeting with me at such short notice.
The Corpus of Contemporary American English agrees with the latter, as it gives 33 hits for “at short notice” against 187 hits for “on short notice”. Google ngrams gives the same picture, but slightly less contrasted:
The phrasing run a search didn't really take off until the last couple of decades...
...which accords with my belief that it's primarily a computer-oriented expression related to run a program. There are few references before the 60s, when computers started to be used by businesses - and for the first couple of decades after that, almost all references explicitly mention computers.
So in answer to OP's question, it's probably undesirable to run a search of non-electronic data - superfluous and potentially misleading.
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Neither - it's books translated into English. Some relevant usage figures from Google Books...
There's no principle of grammar, logic, or semantics involved here. It's just that nearly everyone falls into line and repeats what they hear nearly everyone else say - unlike this sentence, where people are actually about evenly split over whether they "fall into line" or "fall in line" (but they never "fall to line" in that sense).