The trains will run at 220 mph and the first leg would be from New York to Philadelphia (a trip taking about half an hour, compared to an hour and a half now) by 2023.
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Since 1998 it has dropped by an hour and a half for men and by over half an hour for women.
Did we care most about getting our wash done in an hour versus an hour and a half?
"For every day I'm on the road, I probably spend between an hour and an hour and a half figuring out food, " Bruce said.
"In an hour, a half hour - just ten minutes - the crayfish can claw my fish to death, " says Salah Zayed a 56-year old fisherman who says he's been tossing his nets into the Nile since he was a child.
The man, described as an amateur explorer who wants to remain anonymous, unearthed a 5.5 kilogram golden nugget 60 centimeters in the ground outside Ballarat, a city about an hour and a half drive west of Melbourne.
Of course, an hour and a half is still an impressive shift from years' past, when an upfront took the better part of three hours.
Vincent could paint a painting in less than an hour and a half.
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The 3, 500-pounder resisted the first gaff for an hour and a half and thrashed for another hour before they got the tail-rope round it.
Shiner, Texas, a town of two thousand an hour and a half east of San Antonio, is known to most Texans as the home of Shiner Beer, one of the best-selling independent beers in the country.
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There is simply no reason a SWAT team should take over an hour and a half to respond to a shooting.
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"I would say it's completely different to any other sport because you have a heartbeat average of 170 over an hour and a half and you never see that in another sport, " Glock said.
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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On one day they were given no breakfast before the scans and on a different day they were fed a large, 730 calorie, breakfast an hour and a half before.
We've gotten to a point where we're averaging about an hour and a half per character.
In the end, I found her, a doctor who only opened her clinic for an hour and a half a day due to the security situation.
As a medical student, I once worked in a pediatric oncology office that ran at least an hour and a half late every day.
He said he came across no gritted roads on a 16-mile journey which took nearly an hour and a half, adding he passed "many" vehicles which had become stuck.
Jaspreet Singh Goomer, a 22-year-old accounting student, drove an hour and a half on Saturday from western Delhi to a Home Centre store on the city's eastern outskirts to buy furniture for his family's new house.
But in a typical home environment, users should expect to get up to an hour and a half of "driving" time out of the robot.
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The Russian raced out to a 4-1 lead in the breaker, but the world number 21 was not to be denied as she saved a set-point before closing out the match in just under an hour and a half.
The strongest tornado, rated a maximum EF5 on the Fujita Tornado Scale, tracked for nearly an hour and a half along a 38-mile path from Chickasha through south Oklahoma City and the suburbs of Bridge Creek, Newcastle, Moore, Midwest City and Del City.
"I was struggling a bit with my swing, and I went to the range and hit balls for an hour and a half, and felt like I got my rhythm back, " he said.
And he began exercising for an hour and a half a day--yoga, aerobics, kickboxing.
The first is Namegawa Onsen, about an hour and a half southwest of town.
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In all, he took about an hour and a half to print, including warm-up time.
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But Mike stayed put, and she did come back, an hour and a half later.
About an hour and a half later he was solving junior high level algebraic equations.
Ms Davies arrived an hour and a half after the baby's death, the inquest heard.
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