She shows up, in full makeup, at the designated location at least half an hour early and is fully prepared to wait (and wait) for her moment to be a face in a very big crowd.

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To put it yet another way, coastal Californians would have to live cheek-by-jowl as Japanese people in the megalopolis that stretches from Tokyo to Osaka do to have any chance of a high-speed rail service that offered at least half a dozen trains an hour and did not require huge tax-payer subsidies.

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But, as our driver, Abdu, was keen to tell Father, the journey on public transport took at least an hour and a half.

NEWYORKER: Naima

As a medical student, I once worked in a pediatric oncology office that ran at least an hour and a half late every day.

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And in fact, students at Yale who wish to participate in ROTC must drive to the University of Connecticut at least once a week, a trip that could take about an hour and a half each way.

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