minute vs minutes

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Daniellll

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do we say:
- I have a 5 minutes presentation
OR
- I have a 5 minutes presentation?
 

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do we say:
- I have a 5 minutes presentation
OR
- I have a 5 minutes presentation?

When it's used as an adjective like this, we remove the "s", but we use a hyphen.

I have a five-minute presentation.
My presentation lasts five minutes.

I'm taking a four-week holiday.
I'm going on holiday for four weeks.
 
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