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Walsh said that the Prospect Heights cafe receives roughly one order per minute during business hours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
“I had to take a minute to take that in, and I thought, ‘I’d be honored.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
The amplitude of the bowel sounds nearly doubled, the sounds were present during a much larger share of the recordings, and the number of individual sounds per minute also increased.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2026
After a minute or so, he plucked 11 tiny ticks from the cloth with tweezers, and stuck them on a lint roller.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
SJ sized up Kathy for a minute, then pointed at the frybread with her lips.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Then suddenly, when he took a look at the building a few minutes later, it was empty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
"All my temper goes away after I leave the tennis court. If I'm not happy with my practice, I step out of the court and five minutes later, I'm OK," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Eagle County Regional Airport—about 90 minutes away from Aspen by car—is expecting to nearly double the number of flights it regularly serves during the summer period.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Sean Hannity cut into his show on Thursday and aired 36 uninterrupted minutes from Oklahoma.
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2026
With the open house set to start in a few minutes, I realized he couldn’t even attempt to take over the event.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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Flyers in the race signed a last minute agreement to delay the start four days, to give opportunity for minuter mechanical overhauling, stricter sifting of entrants' abilities to fly.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Wanting judgment, and the tact of good sense, these detailers have no power of selection from their stores, to make one prominent fact represent the hundred minuter ones that may follow it.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
Nor need we doubt that even these living invisibles are beset with parasites vastly minuter than themselves, which feed and breed on their surfaces.
From Nature and Culture by Harvey Rice
Until this examination has worked out toward a wider collection and in toward a minuter scrutiny of details, inference is deferred.
From How We Think by John Dewey
In addition to their minuter size they differ from the ova in their power of active movement.
From Mendelism Third Edition by Reginald Crundall Punnett
It’s as if he had antennae that could feel the minutest vibrations across the political world.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
But 26 minutest later, at 2:06 a.m., he reported that the ship “had begun to take a great inclination to the right side, and there was great upheaval and screams.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
Lt Col Hollington put together the programme for their whole-day visit, including all the preparations, which were executed to the minutest detail.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2022
“It is, in fact, his power of observation, his eye for the minutest detail, that sets him apart not only from most baseball writers but also from most writers, period.”
From Washington Post ● May 20, 2022
The minutest crystals may show traces of crystalline outlines; undoubtedly they are of new formation and have originated in situ.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
The SNP minister said the meeting was minuted but would be subject to “special considerations that relate to intergovernmental relations”.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2024
The Kraken seized advantage about six minuted later when Vince Dunn wound up at the left point and blistered a slap shot past Dan Vladar to tie things 1-1.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2023
Lentils might cook in about 30 minuted, but nothing else does.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2016
The newly minuted “I Dough, I Dough” ice cream has a fitting new label and updated packaging showcasing two cows wearing top hats with their tales intertwined to show solidarity and unity.
From MSNBC ● Jun. 27, 2015
The fact is thus minuted in the Council's Books under date Dec.
From The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 by David Masson
He writes by hand, minuting correspondence he has seen with a letter "B" followed by the Roman numeral "XVI".
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2012
I dare say there was a vast amount of minuting, memoranduming, and despatch-boxing, on this mighty subject.
From Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens
However, he was resolved to stick to the Great Department; and so the work of form-filling, corresponding, minuting, memorandum-making, signing, counter-signing, counter-counter-signing, referring backwards and forwards, and referring sideways, crosswise, and zig-zag, recommenced.
From Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
Leaving to Anthony the irksome task of minuting down the roll of time for one unlucky month, turn we to another personage with whom it is high time the reader should be acquainted.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by John Roby
Hushed with broad sunlight lies the hill, And, minuting the long day's loss, The cedar's shadow, slow and still, Creeps o'er its dial of gray moss.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
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