Abstract
Turner and Sargent have argued that many of the small groups of galaxies catalogued by de Vaucouleurs have crossing-times of the order of the Hubble time, and hence are probably unbound systems expanding as the Universe expands. I show that they used an inappropriate definition of crossing-time, and that the properly defined crossing-times are typically about 20 per cent of the Hubble time.

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