After flying into Wenzhou from Shanghai, we had to take a ferry during one part of our hour and a half car journey.

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It includes one hour of classroom instruction, video demonstrations and chalk talk, a half-hour track and vehicle orientation, lunch, and four and a half hours of track exercises in front and all-wheel-drive vehicles.

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But given the state of music-buying, I don t know how long this idea of making an hour and a half of music, in one thought process, is going to survive.

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The rest of the one-and-a-half hour set was taken up with such favourites as Angels, She's The One, Let Me Entertain You and Rock DJ.

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From there it was a grueling one and half hour drive on bumpy roads to the city of Ahmed Pur Sharqia in sizzling 45 degree temperatures.

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Unfortunately, we ran into a lot of traffic and we were stuck at one point for about a half an hour.

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The hotel's one-block proximity to the Technopark tram station puts it within a half-hour ride of the airport and within steps of the nightclubs, cafes and corporate towers sprouting up on every corner.

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