When he condescended to speak, he contradicted himself three or four times in the space of half an hour.

当他屈尊讲话时，半小时内有三四次前后矛盾。

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His space flight lasted one hour and forty-eight minutes.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

During the two-and-a-half hour moon walk, the astronauts frolicked in the weightlessness of outer space and planted an American flag in the lunar surface.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

"They are all hurtling around in space at 36,000 kilometers per hour and so even a 1mm piece of space junk can destroy or damage a satellite because it all comes from either dead satellites, satellites which have broken up, satellites which had fuel left in them and exploded."

VOA: standard.2010.07.24

It was the second avalanche in the area in the space of an hour.

BBC: RAF rescue helicopter during operation

What if, they wondered, people could rent outdoor space by the hour?

WSJ: Backyard Timeshare on the Lower East Side to Open Aug. 1

In the space of an hour, then, the personal relationship between the two old adversaries had been strong enough to enable agreement to be reached on the start of a new UN-brokered peace process and on a move that could - just possibly - break the whole mould of Cypriot politics.

BBC: Cyprus veterans share chemistry