 Compound adjectives with numbers

Adjectives
Adjectives are words used before a noun or after the verb be or a verb of the
senses (feel, look, smell, sound, taste) to describe something.

o They have an expensive car.

o Your idea is fantastic. 
o John looks tired.

 
Compound adjectives
Compound adjectives are made of two or more words: a well-dressed man,
a part-time job, a first-class train ticket .

We should join the different words in a compound adjective with a hyphen to

show that they go together and are part of the same idea.
 

Number + noun
We can use number + noun as a compound adjective before another noun.

This construction is often used with nouns of measurement, such as foot, metre,
mile, pound, kilogram, second, minute, hour, pound, dollar, etc..

There are two things that you should remember about number-noun compound
adjectives:

1.Use a singular noun. Remember adjectives have no plural form in English:

 A two-days journey
 A two-day journey

2.Use a hyphen to connect the number to the noun that follows it. This allows
the reader to know that both words function as a unit that modifies the noun
after it:

o A 30-minute show
o A two-day journey
o A 50-metre pool
o A eight-core processor
o A two-bedroom apartment

Note that you can write metre, litre (UK spelling) or meter, liter (US spelling).

Sometimes, a compound adjective is made up of more than one word:

o A 10-million-dollar house
o A seven-year-old child

 
Number + part of the body + -ed
When we use a number + noun as a compound adjective and the noun is a part
of the body, then we have to add -ed after the part of the body.

o A three-legged table
o A seven-headed dragon
o A one-eyed alien
o A four-armed robot

Note that the consonant is doubled when the last syllable of the noun is stressed
and is made of consonant + vowel + consonant: legged.