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Could you please help me with these? please?

I slept for the time of 2 movies./for the time it takes for to movies to play out.
I did the dishes in the time it took you to go grocery shopping.
I was able to watch 2 movies in the time it took you to do your homework.

How would you use BY CONTRAST?

Yesterdays game was easy, but by contrast to today's game, it was hard.

Thank you

Mr Wordy · Accepted Answer

~~I slept for the time of 2 movies./for the time it takes for to movies to play out.~~ -- Unless you actually intended to watch the movies, it seems odd to use this as a time measure. If you did intend to watch them, then it's easier to say "I slept through two movies."

I did the dishes in the time it took you to go grocery shopping. -- OK

I was able to watch two movies in the time it took you to do your homework.

Yesterday's game seemed easy, but in contrast to today's game, it was hard. -- It seems a contradiction to say it "was easy" and then it "was hard". "by contrast" is not actually wrong, but "in contrast" is more natural to me. It doesn't seem likely to me that anyone would actually want to use the sentence "this way round" -- and, in fact, I had to think about it for a few seconds to figure out what it was saying. Much more likely is the reverse meaning: "Yesterday's game seemed hard, but in contrast to today's game, it was easy."

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