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Eileen_0727 Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
Outside
Hello,
I've got a question concerned with the use of the word outside.
There is a sentence like this: You'll have to do it outside office hours.
I know that the word outside usually used to describe a place, but here it refers to the time. I wonder on what circumstances that the word outside can be used to indicate the time?
Hope you can give me a hand, thanks!
I've got a question concerned with the use of the word outside.
There is a sentence like this: You'll have to do it outside office hours.
I know that the word outside usually used to describe a place, but here it refers to the time. I wonder on what circumstances that the word outside can be used to indicate the time?
Hope you can give me a hand, thanks!
Top answer
Aside from the pattern "outside office/opening/school/etc. hours", there are uses like: "I finished the marathon, but I was outside four hours" (took longer than four hours) "That took just a couple of seconds outside two minutes" (a couple of seconds longer than two minutes) "I finished the test, but outside the allotted time" (took longer than the allotted time) etc. There may be other patterns too.
- Aside from the pattern "outside office/opening/school/etc.
- hours", there are uses like: "I finished the marathon, but I was outside four hours" (took longer than four hours) "That took just a couple of seconds outside two minutes" (a couple of seconds longer than two minutes) "I finished the test, but outside the allotted time" (took longer than the allotted time) etc.
- There may be other patterns too.
- It's not easy to straight away think of all the possibilities.
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Aside from the pattern "outside office/opening/school/etc. hours", there are uses like:
"I finished the marathon, but I was outside four hours" (took longer than four hours)
"That took just a couple of seconds outside two minutes" (a couple of seconds longer than two minutes)
"I finished the test, but outside the allotted time" (took longer than the allotted time)
"I finished the marathon, but I was outside four hours" (took longer than four hours)
"That took just a couple of seconds outside two minutes" (a couple of seconds longer than two minutes)
"I finished the test, but outside the allotted time" (took longer than the allotted time)
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