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a one day and a half drive vs a one week and a half trip

Both phrases are incorrect. The correct forms should be 'a one-day-and-a-half drive' and 'a one-week-and-a-half trip'. The hyphens are necessary to clarify the structure of the phrases.

Last updated: March 22, 2024 • 1133 views

a one day and a half drive

This phrase is incorrect. It should be 'a one-day-and-a-half drive' with hyphens to connect the elements properly.

The correct structure for expressing a duration like this is to use hyphens to connect the components (one-day-and-a-half, one-week-and-a-half).
  • One day and a half and as always not at all...
  • I got an hour-and-a-half drive home after this.
  • One hour here, an hour and a half drive you have four hours for the hospital.
  • But it is an hour and a half drive after shift.
  • No more hour and a half drive each way for you any more.
  • It's been a day and a half.
  • Even in a day and a half.
  • What followed was a long day and a half for Lily.
  • A really long day and a half.
  • Three weeks...? Specifically the first day and a half was really something.
  • That means it's been about a day and a half.
  • A day and a half from here.
  • A day and a half... nothing to eat.
  • It's been a day and a half.
  • A day and a half, Theo.
  • They waited a day and a half before getting him to a doctor.
  • Got a day and a half lay in.
  • It's been like a day and a half.
  • That's one day for every three and a half people we killed by knowingly planting a false story in a foreign newspaper.
  • I went from doing laundry one day to having over two and a half million hits on my Flickr pages.

Alternatives:

  • a one-day-and-a-half drive

a one week and a half trip

This phrase is incorrect. It should be 'a one-week-and-a-half trip' with hyphens to connect the elements properly.

The correct structure for expressing a duration like this is to use hyphens to connect the components (one-day-and-a-half, one-week-and-a-half).

Alternatives:

  • a one-week-and-a-half trip

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