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Jan 16, 2007 · It depends on the context. Your sentence could mean one of two things: 1. The airplane will arrive 30 minutes from now. (In other words, the airplane will arrive in 30 minutes). 2. The airplane will arrive 30 minutes late. (In other words, the plane will arrive 30 minutes later than scheduled). Your sentence is a bit ambiguous without context ...
Nov 27, 2015 · Nov 27, 2015. #2. I never really thought about it before, but it seems to be that with such expressions of time the normal "s" signifying the plural form is dropped when the word is used as an adjective. Observe: a. It is a 30-minute (adj.) walk from the station. b. Each meeting is 30 minutes long. c.
Apr 28, 2012 · Senior Member. U.S.A. English (US), Danish, bilingual. Apr 28, 2012. #5. In your example above, ‘thirty-minute’ is a compound adjective which modifies ‘wait’; compound adjectives should be hyphenated. If you had said, ‘I waited for 30 minutes’, thirty would be a single adjective modifying minutes, in which case you don’t hyphenate.
Apr 23, 2015 · Hi everyone, is there a difference between "in 30 minutes" or "after 30 minutes" in the following context? Time now: 4pm At 4:30pm, I will meet Peter. Should I say to Peter: 1) I'll see you in 30 minutes. or: 2) I'll see you after 30 minutes. Do they mean the same thing to you? Thank you!
Jan 20, 2020 · You are 30 minutes late. You expect it to take 30 minutes more. That's one hour. 1) "other" is wrong. "another" fixes it. 2) 30 minutes plus another hour is an hour and 30 minutes - too much. 3) "other" is wrong and fixing it would make you two hours and 30 minutes late - way too much.
Mar 25, 2006 · Ten minutes' walk = A walk of ten minutes. A phrase used as an attribute in front of a noun usually does not show number, even if the same phrase after the noun does: A ten-minute walk = A ten-minute-long walk = A walk ten minutes long = A walk ten minutes in length. Such a phrase requires hyphens if it contains an adjective followed by a noun.
May 30, 2018 · May 30, 2018. #2. They are both correct but mean different things. gayyyyk said: “I came home 5 minutes earlier than the day before”. Yesterday, I returned at 6 p.m. and today I returned at 5.55 p.m. gayyyyk said: “I came home 5 minutes early”. I usually get back home at 6 p.m. but today I got back at 5.55 p.m.
Apr 5, 2013 · 1) I was waiting/waited 30 minutes for the next bus. (yesterday) With time expressions like "yesterday" is better to use the Simple Past, e.g. I waited 30 min. for that bus yesterday (/last night...).. It somehow sounds fine to me in both versions but I'm not sure if it's correct. Still, it's better to wait for the English speakers' viewpoint.
Dec 11, 2009 · Jun 30, 2013. #8. Lis48 said: Both to me are acceptable but to me, placing "more" at the end of the sentence stresses it e.g. "I have two weeks more of school" is more emphatic than "I have two more weeks of school." I suspect that the reason is that at the end of the sentence, "more" modifies the verb "wait" rather than the noun "minutes" e.g.
Jun 11, 2016 · Senior Member. England (aged 79) UK English. Jun 11, 2016. #5. Perhaps stopped should be changed to arrived, in which case I would see no problem with after a 30-minute wait. After 30 minutes of waiting runs into the problem of who was waiting. In other words, we really have no adequate context.
