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Discover LudwigThe phrase "alone an hour" is not correct in standard written English.
It could be used in a context where you want to express that someone was by themselves for a duration of one hour, but it requires rephrasing for clarity.
Example: "I was alone for an hour before anyone arrived."
Alternatives: "by myself for an hour" or "solitary for an hour".
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Five minutes with Clos, let alone an hour, is enough to be persuaded of his concern for all our urban futures.
It's 97.2percentt white – as white as it gets almost anywhere, let alone an hour from London – and utterly, ethnically, working class.
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She stood there waving, alone, for an hour.
The two men talked alone for an hour and a half about their most intractable disagreements.
The leaders met alone for an hour, then with the working teams.
According to Ms. Wu, who appeared in court with an interpreter of Mandarin, the boy had been alone for an hour.
At Oxford, you have the wonderfully privileged system of having the teacher's attention alone for an hour.
During our second day there, my mother, brother, and sister went off at one point, and I was alone for an hour in the room with my father.
The four leaders met alone for an hour and a half, before moving to broader format talks that included ministers and aides for the rest of the discussions.
He informed the president in the family quarters of the White House on Wednesday night, when the two men met alone for an hour.
In Saumarez Park, the well-planned Folk Museum, filled with mementoes and reconstructions of earlier days on the islands, was ours alone for an hour.
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