hyphenated time words – English Grammar Profiler

While searching for structures in the English Vocabulary Profile, we sometimes find structures we are not sure why they are listed at a certain complexity.  For example:

walk NOUN

A2 a journey that you make by walking, often for enjoyment

a short/ten-minute, etc. walk =
B2 a journey that takes a short time/ten minutes, etc. when you walk

For example:

If it‘s all right, I thought I might take a short walk.

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‘A short walk’ seems rather simple to be included at B2.

There is an English Grammar Point at B2 that covers compound adjectives with hyphens and a B1 point that covers a range of attributive adjectives. We are interested in what other noun phrases especially with hyphenated adjectives follow this structure and should be considered also to be at B2 as a minimum even if they are not listed in the EVP or EGP.  Here are examples expressing  duration or a period length:

Canopy Growth stock now has a 52-week low of $2.13 and a 52-week high of $20.73.

fool.com

The region was hit by 8 to 10 inches of rainfall in a 24-hour period, 

what experts called a one in a thousand-year rain event.

pressherald.com

A search in iWeb for hyphenated time nouns:

*-*_NNT1

1 HALF-HOUR 20455 2 OFF-SEASON 20395 3 MID-CENTURY 16041 4 MID-DAY 9574 5 MID-SEASON 9553 6 MID-YEAR 9538 7 YEAR-END 8998 8 HALF-CENTURY 8669 9 MID-WEEK 8403 10 MID-AFTERNOON 7631 11 THIRD-YEAR 7085 12 MID-MORNING 6749 13 YEAR-OVER-YEAR 6359 14 MID-SUMMER 6276 15 PRIME-TIME 5637 16 POST-SEASON 5629 17 TIME-TO-TIME 4172 18 24-HOUR 4092 19 THREE-DAY 3834 20 HALF-DAY 3747 21 EXTRA-TIME 3615 22 QUARTER-CENTURY 3577 23 LIFE-TIME 3523 24 MID-WINTER 3133 25 WEEK-END 3075 26 30-DAY 2963 27 ONE-HOUR 2962 28 NIGHT-TIME 2873 29 10-YEAR 2803 30 ALL-SEASON 2722 31 TWELVE-MONTH 2715 32 TWO-TIME 2671 33 REGULAR-SEASON 2662 34 KILOWATT-HOUR 2591 35 ON-TIME 2322 36 5-YEAR 2217 37 3-DAY 2075 38 DAY-OUT 2046 39 ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME 1990 40 10-DAY 1966 41 DAY-IN 1943 42 FULL-DAY 1936 43 12-MONTH 1935 44 DAY-TIME 1906 45 ALL-DAY 1820 46 DAY-OF 1793 47 THREE-TIME 1760 48 1-YEAR 1708 49 MID-MONTH 1674 50 MULTI-YEAR 1673 51 BIG-TIME 1620 52 2-YEAR 1597 53 LATE-NIGHT 1590 54 THREE-HOUR 1552 55 HALF-AN-HOUR 1480 56 MID-SPRING 1411 57 3-YEAR 1383 58 200-DAY 1376 59 HALF-DECADE 1359 60 2-DAY 1355 61 B-DAY 1351 62 MONTH-TO-MONTH 1329 63 X-MAS 1312 64 2-HOUR 1290 65 DOWN-TIME 1284 66 50-DAY 1282 67 HALF-YEAR 1234 68 7-DAY 1216 69 LEAD-TIME 1110 70 30-YEAR 1106 71 4-YEAR 1102 72 SINGLE-SEASON 1094 73 5-DAY 1067 74 MID-AUTUMN 1062 75 90-DAY 1056 76 DATE-TIME 1024 77 MULTI-DAY 994 78 1-HOUR 980 79 COMPILE-TIME 973 80 OFF-DAY 969 81 FOUR-HOUR 956 82 60-DAY 939 83 6-MONTH 905 84 FOUR-TIME 899 85 IN-SEASON 895 86 1-DAY 885 87 PRE-DAWN 882 88 8-WEEK 866 89 12-HOUR 864 90 LUNCH-TIME 861 91 12-WEEK 860 92 20TH-CENTURY 842 93 SEVEN-DAY 834 94 15-YEAR 833 95 FOUR-WEEK 814 96 LIMITED-TIME 810 97 3-HOUR 808 98 ONE-WEEK 804 99 UP-TIME 788

100 ME-TIME 779

If we don’t bother with time or adjectives, and just look in the NOW corpus for similar noun phrases:

_A *-* _NN

1 THE IN-APP BROWSER 158567 2 THE FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS 62261 3 THE COVID-19 CRISIS 55528 4 THE COVID-19 VACCINE 45045 5 THE COVID-19 OUTBREAK 40545 6 THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE 38475 7 A COVID-19 VACCINE 28502 8 THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION 25540 9 THE COVID-19 VIRUS 24987 10 A 1-1 DRAW 24645 11 A NO-DEAL BREXIT 23146 12 A DROP-DOWN MENU 21339 13 A WAKE-UP CALL 17999 14 OUR COMMUNITY-BASED MODERATION 16244 15 THE EX-DIVIDEND DATE 15564 16 A 1-0 WIN 15455 17 THE FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION 15219 18 A CASE-BY-CASE BASIS 14721 19 A 2-1 WIN 14128 20 YOUR E-MAIL MESSAGE 14031 21 THE COVID-19 LOCKDOWN 13479 22 THE COVID-19 SITUATION 13425

23 A YEAR-OVER-YEAR BASIS 13396

24 A 52-WEEK LOW 13385 (shows duration)

25 A 2-0 WIN 12751 26 THE 2019-20 SEASON 12559 27 A 2-0 LEAD 12211 28 AN UP-TO-DATE WEB 11914 29 A 2-2 DRAW 11846 30 THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER 11689 31 A 1-0 LEAD 11678 32 THE ALL-STAR BREAK 11481 33 THE YEAR-AGO PERIOD 11451 34 YOUR 30-DAY PERIOD 11428 35 A FULL-TIME JOB 11253 36 THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP 11234 37 A ONE-YEAR DEAL 10837 38 THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS 10695 39 A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION 10336 40 A WHOLLY-OWNED SUBSIDIARY 10308 41 A PRICE-TO-EARNINGS RATIO 10296 42 THE ALL-STAR GAME 10156 43 THE US-CHINA TRADE 10093 44 THE DROP-DOWN MENU 10053 45 THE ANTI-GRAFT AGENCY 9973 46 THE 2020-21 SEASON 9598 47 THE POP-UP BLOCKER 9413 48 A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS 9254 49 A WIN-WIN SITUATION 9164 50 THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO 9035 51 A 0-0 DRAW 8873 52 A TWO-YEAR CONTRACT 8479 53 A TWO-YEAR DEAL 8468 54 THE COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS 8364 55 A THREE-YEAR DEAL 8297 56 A ONE-STOP SOURCE 8231 57 A 3-0 WIN 8189 58 THE COVID-19 VACCINES 8134 59 A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD 8112 60 A TWO-RUN HOMER 8111 61 A 3-1 WIN 8107 62 A STAR-STUDDED FIELD 7950 63 A 2-1 VICTORY 7901 64 A 2-1 LEAD 7865 65 A DEBT-TO-EQUITY RATIO 7793 66 THE 2018-19 SEASON 7651 67 A THREE-YEAR CONTRACT 7565 68 ITS COVID-19 VACCINE 7537 69 A 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL 7495 70 A NON-PROFIT ORGANISATION 7477 71 THE GO-TO SOURCE 7457 72 THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS 7312 73 A NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 7297 74 THE FREE-THROW LINE 7091 75 A 15-YEAR-OLD GIRL 7054 76 THE 2017-18 SEASON 7025 77 A 3-0 LEAD 6960 78 THE COVID-19 VACCINATION 6944 79 A 1-0 VICTORY 6931 80 A TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY 6904 81 A LONG-TERM SOLUTION 6888 82 AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS 6836 83 A ONE-STOP SHOP 6788 84 A TWO-STATE SOLUTION 6748 85 OUR ALL-ACCESS PACKAGES 6705 86 THE ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY 6680 87 THE INDO-PACIFIC REGION 6596 88 A HIGH-LEVEL MEETING 6562 89 THE COVID-19 RESPONSE 6535 90 A ONE-YEAR CONTRACT 6534 91 THE 2016-17 SEASON 6511 92 A NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION 6509 93 A 16-YEAR-OLD GIRL 6430 94 A COVID-19 OUTBREAK 6430 95 A POST-COVID WORLD 6353 96 A PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP 6341 97 A 3-2 WIN 6321 98 A FIVE-YEAR PERIOD 6248 99 THE SAUDI-LED COALITION 6242

100 THE PFIZER-BIONTECH VACCINE 6210