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by MvL on August 21st, 2010

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Which time unit is used most in everyday life: minutes or hours?

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  • by More2Be on August 21st, 2010

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    Since one is a subunit of the other the distinction is not as relevant as "miles or km" or "celcius or farenheit". If the time frame is less than 45 minutes but not 30, people will give the time frame in minutes. If the time frame is 30 minutes they will say half an hour. Thereafter they generally use half-hour increments, like "in an hour and a half".
    Since most events in everyday communication require more than 45 minutes (workdays, appointments, etc) then I would hazard a guess that most time frames are an hour or more. Minutes are used when people feel rushed, like "I'll be ready in 20 minutes" when anyone knows it is going to be an hour.

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  • by ChangeYourNameToSomethingAppropriate on August 21st, 2010

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    Minutes :

    As in "two minutes turkish"
    Or "i'll do it in a minute"
    When alarm clock goes off "ooooohhhh "five minutes more"

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  • by Mister_Bromyde on August 22nd, 2010

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    The unit of regret.

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  • by nice jugs on August 22nd, 2010

    nice jugs

    Just a second !! i'll find out for you.....It'll take a few minutes for my computer to start up.....and you sould get hours of fun pondering my answer..a day never goes by without questions like this arising...only last week i was thinking ..how quick the months shoot bye and i hope it will be years before i have to answer another one like this.....hehe

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