| 1 The drive took an hour and twenty minutes |
| 2 It will take three hundred and twenty minutes or five hours and twenty minutes. |
| 3 They went into a bar at around seven, probably just after seven o�clock. |
| 4 Each would pay one thousand |
| 5 It is a ten percent discount |
| 6 Each owner had to pay half, and that is four hundred euros each |
| 7 It came to nothing, it fell through, it failed miserably, for to sell a thousand pancakes a day you would need a really excellent location, and that is hard to find and very expensive. |
| 8 missing? |
| 9 It would take 364 days |
| 10 Even if no air were lost and all the air kept rotating, friction all along the pipe would cause the air to slow down. There would be some friction at the axle of the little wheel, too |
| 11 To build the wall would take three men three times less time: instead of a day they would spend only one third of a day building. This is in theory; in fact, of course, the result might be very different for all kinds of reasons. |
| 12 The tourist was probably from one of those many countries where people do not pronounce the H . He had probably meant to say HAM |
| 13 The shop-keeper had been cheated. The customers were both crooks. At the point where the story breaks off, they were on their way to the corner bar where they were going to have a drink and share the money. |