within the hour?
When someone said he woul be here within the hour at 9:30 A.M. Did he mean he would arrive here before 10 A.M., or before 10:30 A.M.?
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This is what I think:
When talking about time on a clock:
Within the hour = before the next hour starts (10:00).
Within an hour = within 60 minutes (10:30).
Otherwise "within the hour" and "within an hour" can both mean "within 60 minutes", for example, in a race or after some other event has happened, for which the starting time is 0 minutes, rather than the time on a clock:
"The race began at 9:30. I finished it within an/the hour at 10:23."
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It means he'll arrive by 10:30 or earlier.
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Within the your = within 60 minutes.
He'll be there before 10:30.
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To me "within the hour" means before the next hour begins (in this case, 10 A.M.).
Maybe It's a Canadian thing!
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