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an hour and a half

an hour and a half

102 1.0
A time that lasts 90 minutes
  • noun
translation icon : una hora y media
  • The next day, in Nice, I found that I had an hour and a half before my flight.
  • about an hour and a half
  • last an hour and a half
  • an hour and a half away

So an hour and a half out of your day.

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Examples

  • But it's been about an hour and a half since I got home from the treatment.

  • She'll be coming home in less than an hour and a half.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • So an hour and a half out of your day.

    Mulligan Brothers Interviews

  • And so I had an hour and a half bus ride coming home.

    André Duqum

  • I have been here for an hour and a half.

    Save the Last Dance (2001)

  • On that particular night, I walked for an hour and a half.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • I drove around for an hour and a half looking for him.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • The class meets twice a week for an hour and a half each Tuesday and Thursday.

    Academic text (1999)

  • We had a conversation that lasted for an hour and a half nonstop.

  • I have been studying for an hour and a half and still don't understand the topic.

How Long

an hour and a half
102 1.0
hour
∞ 1.0
half-hour
395 1.0
15 minutes
445 1.0

Surface Forms

an hour and a half singular
hours and a half plural

Morphology

an + hour + and + a + half

The meaning is directly compositional: 'hour' (60 minutes) plus 'and a half' (an additional half of an hour) yields 90 minutes, so a learner who knows 'hour' and 'half' can compute the duration. The 'X and a half' construction is a regular, cross-linguistic way to indicate one-and-a-half units, making this immediately understandable to a B1 learner.

Etymology

The phrase an hour and a half is a simple clock picture: an hour is 60 minutes and a half is 30 minutes. Put them together and you have 90 minutes, so the phrase means '90 minutes'.