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Vincent Teo Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

A half hour

Can I say,

A half hour later, the police reached the accident scene.
  

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This is fine.

  • This is fine.
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Yes. Many would prefer a hyphen: a half-hour, probably because the indefinite article is normally after half: half an hour.
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