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IT WAS AN HOUR LONG vs IT WAS AN HOUR-LONG

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'It was an hour long' is used when describing the duration of something, while 'it was an hour-long' is used as an adjective to describe something that lasts for an hour.

Last updated: March 31, 2024 • 672 views

IT WAS AN HOUR LONG

This phrase is correct and commonly used when describing the duration of something.

This phrase is used to describe the length of time something lasted. It follows the pattern 'an + time period + long.'

Examples:

The movie was an hour long.
The meeting was an hour long.
The concert was an hour long.

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And I thought it was about an hour too long.
It was the first round, the first burst of an hour-long firefight.
It was so grueling being on all-fours. So, I demanded in my contract that I had to have an hour-long massage every night.
If you can make it an hour long.
Apparently there's an hour-long episode of Eastenders on tonight, so she'd have struggled to get back for that.
like an hour-long bubble bath with bath bombs from Bliss.
Every Monday, the Reverend Father would take an hour-long class.
The most well known film in the genre is an hour long shot of a squirrel with diarrhea.
You took an hour-long cab ride?
Now, from Khan Academy, we saw that short 10-minute videos worked much better than trying to record an hour-long lecture and put it on the small-format screen.
Aren't most classes only an hour long?
An hour long you'll have to look
Martha needed a monologue almost an hour long to arrive at the same conclusion.
I was almost one hours long dead.
We use exotic gases, and we can make missions even up to 20 hours long underwater.
Before your amigo started taking his hour-long shower, he decided to cook huevos stinkeros.
He shouted three hours long to his mother before he died.
It's like an hour-long special, OK?
I confess, when you said you had a fun surprise planned, an hour-long ride to the middle of nowhere was not what I had in mind.
When I finished, it was 2 and half hours long, then I cut it down to 2 hours.

Alternatives:

It lasted an hour.
It took an hour.
It went on for an hour.
It was one hour in duration.

IT WAS AN HOUR-LONG

This phrase is correct and used as an adjective to describe something that lasts for an hour.

This phrase is used to describe something that lasts for an hour. It is hyphenated when used as an adjective before a noun.

Examples:

It was an hour-long documentary.
She gave an hour-long presentation.
We had an hour-long discussion.

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And I thought it was about an hour too long.
It was the first round, the first burst of an hour-long firefight.
It was so grueling being on all-fours. So, I demanded in my contract that I had to have an hour-long massage every night.
If you can make it an hour long.
Apparently there's an hour-long episode of Eastenders on tonight, so she'd have struggled to get back for that.
like an hour-long bubble bath with bath bombs from Bliss.
Every Monday, the Reverend Father would take an hour-long class.
The most well known film in the genre is an hour long shot of a squirrel with diarrhea.
You took an hour-long cab ride?
Now, from Khan Academy, we saw that short 10-minute videos worked much better than trying to record an hour-long lecture and put it on the small-format screen.
Aren't most classes only an hour long?
An hour long you'll have to look
Martha needed a monologue almost an hour long to arrive at the same conclusion.
It's like an hour-long special, OK?
I confess, when you said you had a fun surprise planned, an hour-long ride to the middle of nowhere was not what I had in mind.
Of course in my group we have a debate about it, but urgencies are only agreed on the Thursday before Strasbourg and there is an hour-long meeting on the Tuesday before, where urgencies are quickly cobbled together.
When I finished, it was 2 and half hours long, then I cut it down to 2 hours.
I was almost one hours long dead.
We use exotic gases, and we can make missions even up to 20 hours long underwater.
Before your amigo started taking his hour-long shower, he decided to cook huevos stinkeros.

Alternatives:

It lasted for an hour.
It took one hour.
It went on for an hour.
It was one hour in length.

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