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Sentence: Tom wishing to tell everybody... | If required vs if need be vs :) if necessary
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One and a half hour/hours Sat Sep 09, 2006 8:10 am  One and a half hour/hours		  
Hi

Could you please shed some light on the given two sentences? Are both of them correct or only one?

1- I will be back in one and a half hour.
2- I will be back in one and a half hours.

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One and a half hour/hours Sat Sep 09, 2006 8:17 am  One and a half hour/hours		  
Good morning, Tom

Only the second one is correct.
I will be back in one and a half hours.

It would be more common to say:
I will be back in an hour and a half.

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