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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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"The duration of embarkation and disembarkation at each jetty is 20 minutes."
Does this sentence mean that it takes 20 min to embark and disembark, or that it takes 20 min to embark and another 20 min to disembark?
  

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It's not completely clear, but I read it as a total time of 20 minutes.

  • It's not completely clear, but I read it as a total time of 20 minutes.
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It's not completely clear, but I read it as a total time of 20 minutes.

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