minutes

Example Sentences

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Within minutes, we were no longer talking about furniture.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Does it encourage her dream, or take eight minutes to put them down?

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026

Participants drank a sugary solution, and blood samples were collected every five minutes over a four-hour period.

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026

We dropped in for 20 minutes, enough to explore the gardens and a couple of rooms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

And so it was that when we were herded into that room ten minutes later we were not poor, but rich.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom