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nine thirty vs half past nine

Both 'nine thirty' and 'half past nine' are correct ways to express 9:30 on the clock. 'Nine thirty' is more commonly used in informal contexts, while 'half past nine' is more formal and traditional. Both phrases are interchangeable and widely understood.

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nine thirty

This phrase is correct and commonly used in informal contexts to indicate 9:30 on the clock.

This phrase is used to express the time 9:30 on the clock in a casual or informal manner.

Examples:

  • Let's meet at nine thirty for breakfast.
  • The movie starts at nine thirty.
  • I'll be there at nine thirty.
  • She arrived at nine thirty.
  • We have a meeting at nine thirty.
  • Anyway, there's an Elvis impersonator later tonight at the Nine Thirty club.
  • Nine, nine thirty.
  • It's almost nine thirty in the evening and I'm sitting in a packed Teatro Antico overlooking the city of Taormina with Mount Etna smoking in the distance.
  • Meet me at Metropole, nine-thirty.
  • Dined in, dropped by the SCR, and returned to my room about nine-thirty to work on a lecture.
  • Zero-nine-thirty-nine and the flight doesn't leave until 1100.
  • Not nine-thirty, Don't forget.
  • I drove down there on Friday night... left there around nine-thirty Saturday night.
  • Nine-thirty, meet with board of directors, 1:00, lunch with CEO, and 3:15, foot massage with Nadia.
  • All thirty nine merchants signed paper.
  • Three, six, nine... thirty.
  • Two hundred thirty-nine bucks, plus shipping.
  • Thirty nine, it's clearly visible.
  • Thirty-nine billion at ninety-seven a share.
  • Thirty-nine of them were beaten with rocks and then arrested by state security officials.
  • This isn't a game. Thirty-nine kids are dead.
  • The Industry Committee adopted a number of proposals by thirty-nine votes to three.
  • Thirty-nine companies responded to the call for expression of interest.
  • He left out 15 of the Thirty-Nine Articles, extensively abridging the remainder.
  • Thirty-nine free Apaches in all the world.

Alternatives:

  • half past nine
  • nine thirty AM
  • nine thirty in the morning
  • nine thirty PM
  • nine thirty in the evening

half past nine

This phrase is correct and more formal or traditional to indicate 9:30 on the clock.

This phrase is used to express the time 9:30 on the clock in a formal or traditional manner.

Examples:

  • The meeting is scheduled for half past nine.
  • She arrived at half past nine.
  • Let's have dinner at half past nine.
  • The train departs at half past nine.
  • The event starts at half past nine.
  • The train from GÃteborg arrives at half past nine.
  • At half past nine we receive the news on our mobile phones about a brutal police attack at 60 Wall Street, down the skyscraper of Deutsche Bank. Some sit-ins are dissolved to rush.
  • It's only half past nine. but I thought...
  • For example, supposing it's half past nine in the morning, you just whisper a hint to Time. Around goes the clock and it's half past one in the afternoon, time for dinner!
  • She never arrives before half past nine.
  • There's a dinner first and then most people arrive after half past nine.
  • It's only half past nine. but l thought...
  • Punctually at half past nine in the morning you will be paid the five pence out of a shilling given me then.
  • He thought he'd said all his goodbyes and he wanted to catch the half past nine.
  • This morning, just before half past nine, we found two bodies in a flat in Sowerby Bridge.
  • Now, at half past nine, Dr Kemp, with a bodyguard of police, will leave this house and walk down to the police station.
  • 'The first official news came just after half past nine...'
  • It's half past nine, why didn't you wake me?
  • 190:1.4 (2030.3) It was about half past nine o'clock when the last of David's twenty-six messengers arrived at the home of Nicodemus. David promptly assembled them in the spacious courtyard and addressed them:
  • It's half past nine.
  • It's half past nine now.
  • It's half past nine.
  • ~ Half past nine.
  • Half past nine he arrive with two girls... with red plastic dresses like this.

Alternatives:

  • nine thirty
  • nine thirty AM
  • nine thirty in the morning
  • nine thirty PM
  • nine thirty in the evening

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