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    minute


    minutes


    1. the afternoon, and twenty seconds in the evening to do ten push-ups at a time? One minute out of the twenty four hours you have in your day to do ten thousand nine hundred and fifty push-ups this year? Come on now,


    2. minute; that was Casualty last week


    3. something in the microwave, you set the timer for a minute and you stand there waiting, watching the food go around, waiting for it to, ding! That's time


    4. But one minute more and one minute less over the course of a year, adding all of those additional steps into your routine, makes a huge difference


    5. Trichogramma Minutum and T Pretiosum: These are a minute egg parasite that destroy the eggs of most injurious pests such as the bollworm, cotton leafworm and various borers, hornworm, codling moth, and all moths and butterfly eggs


    6. The superficial currents won’t last more than a minute, but it will be enough time for us to bypass the alarm and slip inside


    7. Any minute they were going to break through the door, so Ackers did the only thing he could think of


    8. He should be awake by now, it was fully light and Kortrax would coagulate out of the orange shimmer on the horizon any minute


    9. the ticking of the clock attracts my attention and I watch the minute hand as it slowly moves round the clockface steadily using up the minutes of my life


    10. He said he’ll be just a minute

    11. a minute or two by the fire


    12. He thinks about it a minute, shrugs his shoulders, chugs some more until the beer is empty, tosses the can in the corner on top of his jacket


    13. It was a twenty minute ride halfway down the city and he got so absorbed in her that Tahlmute elbowed him on the shoulder when he jumped, but doostEr still finished his sentence before he dismounted and then walked back to Tahlmute


    14. After a minute, a second full moon begins to appear above the horizon


    15. What's the emergency? I'll be with you in a minute


    16. He swam in that water a minute, remembering the girl from the north who OD's on the shonggot tahlmute made


    17. He thinks about it for a minute


    18. He was silent for a minute, hopeful


    19. They stop and take it in for a minute


    20. They all watched every minute of its approach in awe

    21. We sat in silence for a minute


    22. Theo hated every minute, but if he could get any useful piece of information he had to do it


    23. I got Liz out of the house while the police went in after him but when they brought him out, he made one hell of a racket, calling out to Liz to help him one minute and screaming obscenities at her for being so evil the next


    24. ‘Definitely, even if he offered me the job, which I don’t for a minute imagine he is going to do!’ I said, chuckling at the memory of his face when I walked out of his office


    25. The tall, gaunt man thought for a minute


    26. Leonora knew she would know when she knew, and she did, the minute that old gray beater pulled into the lot


    27. A minute or so later she received the data and forwarded it to Kandhi's You, with commands to begin the sweep and report on contact


    28. Out at the edge of an insignificantly flat spiral galaxy, by a minute speck of


    29. "It's been a year," she answered, Ava was going to blink them thru to the androids any minute, she'd lost track of time while they'd been walking, "since Ava restarted my backup


    30. "Re-assemble the motor," she had less than a minute left before the blink

    31. Honestly! One minute she’s not got a good word to say for Betty and the next …


    32. During those five days of vacations, Helen didn't stop for a minute criticizing or belittling me over trifles


    33. Sit for a minute or two and try and think about the things that interest you and things that you would find interesting in a person


    34. Apollo hated how the apology sounded the minute he said it


    35. Some weeks after receiving that first message, with breakfast due any minute, I heard heavy boot steps and then a door slam open


    36. "I'll have to pick some so it will be a minute


    37. Would you like a cup of tea? It won’t take me a minute to put the kettle on …’


    38. Despite the fact that everyone she’d spoken to played down the seriousness of the attack, Kara had worked out, by dint of garnering minute details from every staff member in the hospital she had come in contact with … as well as picking Angie’s brains and prising information out of the policeman … that she’d been extremely lucky to survive


    39. And then the wind came right around, within a minute and a half it was opposite and they fled before it


    40. “Wait a minute!” They’ll say

    41. eleven, I hated every minute of it


    42. Out at the edge of an insignificantly flat spiral galaxy, by a minute speck of light that shone almost below the visible spectrum, Smith heard a plaintive howling


    43. But in a minute it got louder, and soon there was a shriek in it


    44. Within a minute the remaining crew was also over the side


    45. The worry that any of her crew really could be devoured any minute brought real tears to her eyes


    46. were only a minute old but I knew I would die


    47. There are some who are in the system and they love every minute of it


    48. “Just a second,” Daniel went inside and returned a minute late with a large glass of water, “I’m really dry and very thirsty


    49. by degree and minute, so that by two or three in the afternoon,


    50. ‘Oh yes, sorry, Gilla, I couldn’t place the name for a minute














































    1. There was motion for a few minutes before she tottered groggily out


    2. How much does this 20 minutes a day that I'm


    3. If your goal is to lose twenty pounds, please don't drive around the parking lot wasting those minutes looking for the closest parking spot


    4. Instead of spending those couple minutes driving around waiting for


    5. In just a couple of minutes, you will turn to the pages where you can put all of this new knowledge into action


    6. After a few minutes of slashing, the bodies become a body fort


    7. “I left for less than five minutes and my lunch is completely gone!” Ackers whined


    8. "I think it would be reasonable for everybody to loosen up, and spend about 15 to 20 minutes a day laughing," said lead researcher Dr


    9. After about twenty minutes, the pony stopped, its neck lathered with sweat


    10. We sit there in silence for some minutes after the policemen have left the room

    11. The driver chats about the weather for a few minutes then concentrates on the driving, leaving me to my thoughts


    12. We leave it that I’ll ring her later in the week and let her know for definite then; after a few more minutes of general conversation, she rings off


    13. Herndon had fallen asleep with his head on his pack, only a few minutes after her, she hoped


    14. He called back and said he was on lunch break but would be there in thirty minutes or so


    15. It was after breakfast in her world, still on a twenty four hour daily cycle, not twenty eight hours and thirteen minutes, more or less


    16. He left here about twenty minutes ago so I expect he will be there soon


    17. the ticking of the clock attracts my attention and I watch the minute hand as it slowly moves round the clockface steadily using up the minutes of my life


    18. He’ll be here in about 10 minutes


    19. At the beginning fifteen minutes is ample time


    20. ‘Mum, what are you going to do workwise?’ she asked a few minutes later, apparently casually

    21. Method 2: Slowly bring water to a boil (use low flame), then turn off heat, add 1 cup of the herb, steep for 5 minutes, turn on heat to low and simmer for 5 min


    22. Stephen’s mobile goes to voice mail when I ring it a few minutes later


    23. minutes of pregnant silence he reached for a pen and then spoke as he signed his


    24. Five minutes later, I stand beside Stephen in the main room of the annexe


    25. She took a few minutes to compose herself, wiped the rain and tears away from her face


    26. "Oh another hour, I only had it out a few minutes before you got here


    27. The full moon has risen about 30 minutes before


    28. We stare at each other in an openly hostile way for a few minutes


    29. in another one of it’s recalcitrant moods I sat idling away a couple of minutes thinking


    30. I sit watching him for several minutes, remembering that other occasion when his temper got the better of him … and how he found it virtually impossible to rescue the situation

    31. SUMMIT OF THE MOUNTAIN - MAYBE 30 MINUTES LATER


    32. With all he had to do he probably wouldn't have thought about sex this sleep, but she had seen him come in and asked if he'd mind? He'd said come up in twenty minutes, he was already in bed when she got there


    33. enough to read the Bible for 20 minutes and shed tears before a re-


    34. ligious icon for 10 minutes


    35. "They say they are, but a quick five minutes around the estate once or twice a night doesn't add up to much


    36. They were quiet a few more minutes after he was gone


    37. BobbingTwo even put his chin on doostEr's lap for a few minutes


    38. Within five minutes of his head hitting the


    39. Trying to comfort her, though horribly aware that there is nothing I can say which will make things better, I sit beside her uttering soothing noises, one arm round her shoulders as she sobs for some minutes


    40. Fifteen minutes later I was presenting myself at Darklow Garda Station

    41. Minutes later he was at St


    42. She soothed him gently for a few minutes, bringing him back to the


    43. "Me and Michael had been out for about 20 minutes and we were just passing the spot where the body was found


    44. I sit in the car for nearly ten minutes muttering imprecations about that bloody man before my sense of humour gets the better of me and, realising just how stupid this whole thing is, burst out laughing


    45. A few minutes later, putting my mobile away in my bag again, I reverse the car out of the parking space and drive down the road


    46. cancer is hard at work 24 hours a day, it is not enough to spend 10 minutes a


    47. ’ He said coming into the room a few minutes later


    48. It was 20 minutes to 11


    49. in tongues for 10 minutes a day is very little! Cancer works around the


    50. ’ I faltered, my grip on reality becoming more firm as the minutes tick past














































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    Synonyms for "minute"

    hour minute arcminute minute of arc min instant moment second bit mo narrow infinitesimal detailed critical exact precise small diminutive microscopic miniature little tiny flash jiffy twinkling

    "minute" definitions

    a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour


    an indefinitely short time


    a particular point in time


    a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree


    a short note


    distance measured by the time taken to cover it


    infinitely or immeasurably small


    characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination