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.

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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).

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