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Het koor zingt anderhalf uur, maar wij luisteren niet meer.

Het koor zingt anderhalf uur, maar wij luisteren niet meer.
The choir sings for one and a half hours, but we do not listen anymore.
From Lesson 264:Discontinued state negation (niet meer, geen ... meer)·Dutch

Questions & Answers about Het koor zingt anderhalf uur, maar wij luisteren niet meer.

Why do we use niet meer here instead of geen ... meer?
We use niet meer because we are negating the verb luisteren (to listen), meaning the action itself has stopped. You use geen ... meer when negating a noun, such as saying you have "no more time" (geen tijd meer).
Why is it anderhalf uur instead of the plural anderhalve uren?
In Dutch, units of time like uur (hour), jaar (year), and kwartier (quarter of an hour) stay in the singular form when preceded by a number or an amount like anderhalf (one and a half). Also, anderhalf doesn't get an -e ending here because uur is a het word (het uur).
Why does niet meer go at the very end of the sentence?
When negating an entire action, niet (and by extension niet meer) is placed as far to the end of the clause as possible. Since there is no direct object or prepositional phrase in the second clause, niet meer naturally falls at the very end after the verb.
Why doesn't the word order change after maar?
maar (but) is a coordinating conjunction. This means it simply glues two independent main clauses together without affecting the word order in either of them. The second clause keeps the standard subject-verb order: wij luisteren.

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