"question and answer" or "question-and-answer"

If you use it before a noun, use the hyphens. Afterward, there will be a ten minutes question-and-answer session.

Grammar Geek
If you use it before a noun, use the hyphens. Afterward, there will be a ten minutes question-and-answer session.

Afterward, there will be a ten minutes question-and-answer session.

Shouldn't it be 'Afterward, there will a ten-minute question-and-answer session' ?

IMO, ten-minute
http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?query=+%22a+ten-minute%22&srchst=nyt

Marius HancuIMO, ten-minute
http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?query=+%22a+ten-minute%22&srchst=nyt

It is " a ten-minute". You miss the letter 'a'

I don't think I've missed anything. My search was wider.

Thank you for clearing up my confusion about the hyphens.

Marius HancuIMO, ten-minute

I was not referring to what you searched but what you had written.

Grammar GeekIf you use it before a noun, use the hyphens. Afterward, there will be a ten minutes question-and-answer session.

Hi GG

Afterward, there will be (a) ten minutes' question-and-answer session.
Afterward, there will be a ten-minute question-and-answer session.

Many people don't use the hyphens but I would certainly put the f

Yes, Cool Breeze, I agree. Your two possibilites are right and I wouldn't use the plural without an apostrophe. I note that in AmE you say "afterward". I didn't know that; in BrE we say "afterwards". And also "towards".

J LewisYes, Cool Breeze, I agree. Your two possibilites are right and I wouldn't use the plural without an apostrophe.

Yes:
http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?query=%22ten+minutes%27%22&srchst=n