Timeline for a ten-minute talk/walk VERSUS ten minutes' talk/walk
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| Jun 21, 2023 at 9:49 | vote | accept | user1425 | ||
| Oct 21, 2022 at 12:51 | comment | added | Colin Fine | @user1425, yes, it can. | |
| Oct 21, 2022 at 12:40 | comment | added | user1425 | So, "ten minutes' walk" is used to measure distance. 1 It's ten minutes' walk to his house from here. But can "a ten-minute walk" be used with the same purpose? 2 It's a ten-minute walk to his house from here. | |
| Sep 8, 2022 at 15:04 | comment | added | Colin Fine | You have a point. But those are both 19th century writers. I don't think you'd find such an instance now. The NoW Corpus has 55 instances of "ten minutes walk" (I don't know how to search it with the apostrophe), and as far as I can see, all of them are measures of distance. It has one instance of "ten minutes talk", but that is actually in the phrase "five to ten minutes talk time". | |
| Sep 8, 2022 at 14:59 | comment | added | user1425 | But here are examples by famous writers “Granville, will you step with me into the library for ten minutes' talk?" - Grant Allen, "He was thoroughly posted, and yet if there was a prize offered for the man that could put up the most uninteresting ten minutes' talk, you wouldn't know whether to bet on him or on Perkins" Mark Twain | |
| Sep 8, 2022 at 14:51 | history | answered | Colin Fine | CC BY-SA 4.0 |