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The phrase "a quarter hours" is not correct in written English.
The correct expression is "a quarter of an hour" or "quarter hour."
Example: "The meeting will last for a quarter of an hour, so please be on time."
Alternatives: "fifteen minutes" or "a quarter hour."
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It takes two and a quarter hours.
Interview lasted one and a quarter hours.
There were four and a quarter hours between flights.
It took us three and a quarter hours to get home.
Two and a quarter hours later, the first giant wave arrived.
He covered the first fourteen miles to base camp in three and a quarter hours.
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It's quick - the evening runs for about three-and-a-quarter hours - because it's cut.
"Don't be a wuss," he replies and breezily adds, "You can drive it in four-and-a-quarter hours".
A municipal airport is a 30-minute drive, and Boston is two-and-a-quarter hours away.
It's quite an experience, and an exhausting one – not only because it is three-and-a-quarter hours long (actually, longer than that last night).
SUMMER BY THE BAY Boothbay is one-and-a-quarter hours north of Portland via I-295, Route 1 north and Route 27 south.
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