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Could you tell me the exact range of the 'in 60 minutes' in this sentence, "Please call back in 60 minutes?" Does it mean 59:01~60:59 or 60:01~60:59? If someone told me like that, it implies that I shouldn't call again within 60 minutes, even after 58 or 59 minutes have passed since then? Thank you in advance.
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" Does it mean 59:01~60:59 or 60:01~60:59? If someone told me like that, it implies that I shouldn't call again within 60 minutes, even after 58 or 59 minutes have passed since then? That is a waste of logic, because no native speaker thinks or expects anything like that.
- " Does it mean 59:01~60:59 or 60:01~60:59?
- If someone told me like that, it implies that I shouldn't call again within 60 minutes, even after 58 or 59 minutes have passed since then?
- That is a waste of logic, because no native speaker thinks or expects anything like that.
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lucas21cCould you tell me the exact range of the 'in 60 minutes' in this sentence, "Please call back in 60 minutes?" Does it mean 59:01~60:59 or 60:01~60:59? If someone told me like that, it implies that I shouldn't call again within 60 minutes, even after 58 or 59 minutes have passed since then?
That is a waste of logic, because no native speaker thinks or
0It's unnatural to say '60 minutes' here. Natural English is 'an hour'.
The implied meaning is 'approximately an hour'. I can't think of a situation where someone is going to sit beside the telephone looking at a stop-watch.
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