Minutes Sentence Examples
The room was silent for a few minutes after they left.
For a few minutes he sipped it in silence.
I'll be home in a few minutes.
Howie was quiet for several minutes as we finished our chores.
I have spent several long minutes creeping about in silence.
In that case I correct only such mistakes as I can recall in the few minutes allowed, and make notes of these corrections at the end of my paper.
I only spoke a few words, as I did not know I was expected to speak until a few minutes before I was called upon.
Though there is less than half an inch between the points--a space which represents sixty minutes--Miss Keller tells the time almost exactly.
She came tearing upstairs a few minutes ago in a state of great excitement.
She was very still for a few minutes, evidently thinking earnestly.
AdvertisementThis came in by currier a few minutes ago, sir.
After some minutes, the gentleman-in-waiting who was on duty came into the great reception room and, bowing politely, asked Balashev to follow him.
The roast will be ready in about 15 minutes.
A few minutes after they left, Felipa arrived with an older woman she introduced simply as Maria.
Within a few minutes the plane was dipping and rising in a way that made her stomach roll uncomfortably.
AdvertisementHe worked quietly for a few minutes and then finally turned his attention to Carmen.
A few minutes later the nurse came in.
Only a few minutes ago she had flaunted death.
I'll be done in just a few minutes.
They paused for a few minutes to say grace and then Carmen responded.
AdvertisementHe said no, it would not be called for about fifteen minutes; so we sat down to wait; but in a moment the man came back and asked Teacher if we would like to go to the train at once.
She began to work delightedly and finished the card in a few minutes, and did it very neatly indeed.
After a few minutes she came back to her place and began to eat her breakfast with her fingers.
This lasted for several minutes; then this mood passed, and Nancy was thrown ruthlessly on the floor and pushed to one side, while a large, pink-cheeked, fuzzy-haired member of the family received the little mother's undivided attention.
A few minutes afterward she felt of her little sister's head and said to her mother, "Mildred's head is small and hard."
AdvertisementFelipa stared at the wall, deep in thought for a few minutes.
Felipa left the room five minutes before Tessa left.
Supper will be ready in ten minutes.
A few minutes later they came in and got Destiny to take her for more x-rays.
Minutes later when the nurse arrived with a syringe of medicine, Destiny was asleep again, still clutching the doll to her chest.
Loading it quickly, he watched the skunk from the house for a few minutes.
Carmen read to her from a book for a few minutes until she fell asleep and then turned the light off.
Katie arrived an hour later to pick up Jonathan and Destiny, and thirty minutes later Carmen and Alex were in the car headed for the airport.
It may take a few minutes, but he'll catch on.
A few minutes later Señor Medena answered the phone.
They sipped their coffee in silence for a few minutes and then Señor Medena spoke.
It was a moment that lay in her stomach like a week-long hunger, regardless of the fact that they had been gone only minutes.
It happened about twenty minutes ago.
After studying the car thoughtfully for a few minutes, he confidently assumed authority.
It was a sobering reminder that a bear had been on this spot – possibly only minutes earlier.
It took them another thirty minutes or so to find the burned out shell of the car.
I'll be over there in a few minutes so you can show me what needs to be taken care of while you're gone.
A few minutes later he walked down the hallway.
There she lay stunned for a few minutes.
It was a few minutes before she became aware that Yancey was watching her.
It was several more minutes before she was able to take deep breaths – even longer before she was able to utter more than a strangled sound.
I came in a few minutes later and she told me.
I just got the message a few minutes ago.
I don't know – maybe thirty minutes ago.
After a few minutes, he reached over to change it.
If she hadn't been there in his arms only minutes ago, she never would have guessed he had been so aroused.
Will you two hold it down for a few minutes?
Thirty minutes later, they emerged from the room.
Rachel was quiet for a few minutes.
He watched her for a few minutes while she crawled under the wagon and pulled her blanket around her shoulders, and then he walked away.
She watched them talk for a few minutes.
He listened intently for a few minutes.
She heard him stretch out on the ground and within minutes his breathing changed.
A few minutes later another horse came by, its hooves clattering loudly above them.
When the last horse had been gone for a few minutes, he stood.
They took their time, squatting on the dusty ground, letting minutes pass between bits of conversation.
After what seemed like hours, but probably wasn't more than thirty minutes in the hot sun, Bordeaux stood.
The two men talked for a few minutes and then one rider turned his bay horse toward the wagons.
Darcie leaned back in the seat and watched Cassie reflectively for a few minutes.
Still, he had been with Darcey only minutes before.
On the positive side, at that rate their conversation should be over by five minutes after nine.
What kind of snack could she whip up in fifteen minutes?
Why don't you rest here a few minutes and I'll do the serving for once.
I'll be back in a few minutes.
A few minutes later Cade popped his head around the door.
The clock ticked away the minutes and she finally sat up and squinted at it - four-thirty.
Giving him a few minutes to traverse the drive, she got up and went into the kitchen.
I'll come down in a few minutes.
In the next few minutes she had reason to believe that wasn't his only cause for concern.
He returned to the kitchen after a few minutes in dry clothes, his hair freshly combed.
A few minutes wouldn't hurt, and then he would be sound asleep.
A few more minutes - let him get completely relaxed.
They rode in silence for a few minutes and finally he looked up.
Several minutes stretched into ten or more with neither of us closing our eyes.
In six minutes he was up and awake, looking confused.
I'll be down in a few minutes.
He still has ten minutes.
Within ten minutes, his second-in-command met him in the tent they used as a war room.
It'll only drop a man half my size for five minutes.
A few minutes of huffing later, she opened the door.
They walked for fifteen minutes before the tunnel intersected with another.
A few minutes later, the soldier reappeared with a tall man with a sharp gaze and quick smile.
I shut down the satellites supporting comms on the East Coast, but it'll only take another two or three minutes before the backups on the sats are enabled.
I'm going to circle back to see what might be there. Rest for a few minutes.
Rhyn crossed his arms, irritated. Kiki trotted from the patio into the house perched on a hill overlooking Tokyo. He returned ten minutes later with a small briefcase, a jacket and a hard case for his iPad. Rhyn opened the portal, and the two strode through it, back to the massive tree where Rhyn had lost Toby in the cold, wet French Alps.
Gabriel was gone. No one followed him, let alone spoke to him. Rhyn looked around uneasily, wondering who – or what – he'd been speaking to. He started back to the spot where they'd stopped for water. A few minutes later, Gabriel reappeared.
Ully returned a couple of minutes later. He strode to Toby's cell and dangled the talisman before it. Toby's door opened.
The man stopped, thinking he'd heard some movement behind him, but after listening a few minutes could discern no human sound and was satisfied he was alone.
Dean didn't ask, "What stuff?" but instead climbed the stairs to the smaller of the two bedrooms, and in less than ten minutes was asleep.
The crosstown trip through deserted streets took less than ten minutes.
He assumed Cynthia Byrne was a few minutes late, but when he descended the stairs, there she sat, opposite Fred O'Connor, who was decked out in an elegant blue pinstripe suit complete with pocket handkerchief and bow tie.
After ten minutes he had found 14 cards for March fourth.
I'd give you about ten minutes to live if you walked out this door, and maybe a day or two if you stay in the motel.
All we have to do is find it, spend ten minutes yelling at an old lady and then get back to Parkside.
They were still early when ten minutes later they located Mrs. Glass's address.
He watched it for a few minutes and then turned quickly to the right.
They approached the ticket counter with 15 minutes to spare.
The plane was scheduled to leave in 45 minutes but one look at the departure board was indicative of things to come.
Dean became concerned when 20 minutes passed.
Do you want to sit here a few minutes and calm down?
Sure enough, after ten minutes of silent driving on nearly empty streets, he recognized Ocean View Avenue, and a few minutes later, The Ocean Shore Motel.
She asked for a few minutes to call Randy first and Dean took the time to telephone Fred, filling him in on the latest happenings.
A few minutes later Cynthia knocked on the door again.
It took Dean another 40 minutes to reach his car, pull off his rain gear, and secure his bicycle.
But all his good intentions and promises went up in smoke minutes later with another phone call.
The service ended in 40 minutes with the priest extending an invitation for friends to return to Mrs. Byrne's home.
Fred was uncommonly quiet and minutes passed before he spoke.
A few minutes later in Uncle Sally's Galley on Butler Street, Fred was hiding behind his menu, embarrassed to be out in public before shaving.
It took two more beers and 30 minutes before a couple of men looking totally out of place in spit-and-polish business suits entered the bar.
They remained in place for 20 minutes, occasionally exchanging a shouted comment, but mostly looking up or down at each other, self-consciously.
Aside from a wasted 20 minutes searching for gas in New Brunswick and a missed exit on the Garden State Parkway, the trip was uneventful.
It took less than ten minutes.
In a few minutes, Dean heard the toilet flush and Winston emerged.
Five minutes later Dean was hurrying back to his campsite.
I saw Winston too, ten minutes earlier.
If you can lie on your back for five minutes, he won't be disappointed.
The truck lights stayed on the door while she unlocked it, and for several minutes after she was inside with the door closed.
For a few minutes she was afraid he would come to the door, but finally the truck turned around and left the yard.
In a few minutes she yielded and finished her breakfast peaceably.
The doctor will be in to talk to you in a few minutes.
Maybe it was the near-inaudible buzz or the rain on the roof, or my imagination, by I actually napped, for about twenty minutes.
I lay there several minutes after I awoke and thought about what Howie experienced.
I had recorded twenty-one minutes.
If Howie drops into ten or twenty minutes of anyone's life, chance are all he sees is them picking their nose, reading a book or working.
I waited ten minutes before leaving the room.
A few minutes later, I spotted Howie and Betsy in a hushed conversation.
I detected his rhythmic breathing within minutes.
I took careful note of the time and movements, all of which lasted twenty-one minutes.
Once again, it was an unproductive test, nine minutes in total.
A car horn outside woke him in less than five minutes.
He's never out more than ten to twenty minutes at a time and three or four sessions make a heavy day.
Remember, he only has a few minutes in his dream.
We would perform this chore one after the other for a total of perhaps fifteen minutes.
It took him only a few minutes in between each pronouncement to locate us.
The entire session lasted barely ten minutes before he awoke a smile on his face.
It took fifty minutes before the door burst open and Howie dashed out and up the stairs with Martha close on his heels.
Thirty minutes later, the two emerged from the room, all smiles.
He waited in the dark nearly twenty minutes before hearing an automobile approach.
Howie had difficulty locating the apartment and nothing untoward occurred before he was awoken by the sound of a horn, seventeen minutes later.
Howie continued to be limited to about fifteen minutes or less each time.
I spent forty minutes alone with the director and related all the situations where your uncanny tips were involved.
Howie's record was thirty-four minutes but he felt he could extend this if needed.
Once Howie was under, he broke a record for duration; one hour and eighteen minutes.
We yacked the usual inanities for a few minutes until Howie excused himself to use the bathroom.
The tip covers only a few minutes, like she has to leave quickly, even though there must be more to be learned if she stayed.
It took me thirty minutes to convey everything that was happening.
We stayed that way for several minutes until she pulled back.
So when Betsy arrived ten minutes later, there was room for sleeping without utilizing the living room sofa.
Ten minutes later I heard a telephone ringing downstairs.
I needed twenty minutes to bring the retired detective up to date.
Think about it a couple of minutes.
When I dialed, it went to voice mail, but he returned my call in a matter of minutes.
In the distance and getting closer I heard the sound of police sirens and in minutes two cruisers pulled into the driveway.
I passed out for a few minutes, I guess, and then I thought I was alone so I started crawling toward the door.
It took me several minutes to respond.
I should be leaving for the police station in a few minutes.
It might make me a few minutes late meeting with Jackson but all the more time for Brennan to speak with him first.
After ten minutes of pushing back branches, I spotted the back of a pop up trailer.
The two spoke for only a few minutes, in the privacy of the kitchen.
After that introduction, my wife listened; for more than five minutes, while Howie apparently continued to ramble.
She doesn't realize her time on this earth is ebbing to a close, perhaps only minutes from now after she answers my questions.
After twenty minutes into the session, I became concerned we were nearing his maximum.
Another ten minutes passed before I was him again.
The ride took about forty minutes and as we arrived, two patrol cars were pulling away from the scene.
We caught up to accident in six or seven minutes.
If I'm not back in twenty minutes, go someplace safe and call the police, okay? she said, placing it on the dashboard.
In all of thirty minutes, some sort of drama would emerge once the inhabitants awoke.
Give me five minutes.
He returned after a few minutes and sat across from her.
Jenn returned after a few minutes, her gaze softening.
He messed with it for a few minutes then reassembled it and placed it on the table.
Jenn, start intel feeds every thirty minutes starting now.
A few minutes later, she sat in the living room, granola bar clenched between her teeth while she tied her shoes.
You've got twenty-seven minutes to get out of here before Jimmy levels this place.
You've got about two minutes before this creature tears through me and kills you.
The day dawned cloudy and cold with a light rain that chilled her after ten minutes.
He returned a few minutes later and rustled her blanket, setting a cup beside her.
A few minutes later, Jake returned with a jug of water, appearing less than excited.
Five minutes later, it returned, scorching her throat on the way out.
Linda texted back and forth with her husband for a few minutes.
In a few minutes, they were strolling through the mall once more.
She walked for ten minutes, carefully remembering where she went, so she was able to find her way back.
Five minutes after you left, he called off the attacks.
Deidre made it to the library a few minutes later.
A female voice he didn't recognize—but definitely not Larkin's—told him the sheriff would be available in thirty minutes.
Pumpkin Green returned while Dean was killing the few minutes before he left.
When she finished, still attired in bathrobe and floppy slippers, and leaving a cloud of flour behind her, she crept upstairs to talk to Fred; a conversation that lasted thirty minutes.
They began the arduous climb, puffing in the high elevation for ten minutes until the trail leveled and opened to their left.
They brushed the mud from their clothes and sat for enough minutes to regain their composure.
Driving was out of the question as the mid-morning parade, scheduled to begin in a few minutes, was forming on Main Street, which was now closed to traffic.
Finally, after ten minutes of silence passed, they heard the sound of feet running down the slope on the other side of the rise above them.
While the crow-flies distance across the gaping gorge was only a half-mile, Dean was at least twenty minutes away in driving time.
Ten minutes later, Lydia Larkin answered her door dressed in very tight and very small white shorts with a red elastic thing that covered only her breasts and nothing of the acres of skin in the middle.
About ten minutes later, he spotted it again and followed.
He called Lydia's name but it was several minutes before he heard steps, and more time before the door was opened.
He'll be back in twenty minutes or so.
Finally things calmed down enough to give Dean and his wife a few minutes of free time.
When pressed, they opined only that Brandon Westlake acted more suicidal than threatening but they had been with him for several minutes where Lydia had just arrived.
Ten minutes later, she sat at a picnic table, devouring the crispy-sweet treats.
He gave her five minutes then started up the stairs.
Destiny had finally reached the point that she would tolerate being held by Lori, but after a few minutes she was ready to get down or go to Alex, Carmen or Jonathan.
A few minutes later he returned.
Carmen lay still for a few minutes, soaking up the body heat from Alex.
She drove straight home, but still arrived at the house only minutes ahead of him.
In only about five or ten minutes, the mare was groaning and lying on her side, pushing hard.
It seemed like a long time, but was probably no longer than fifteen minutes before the mare lunged to her feet, snapping the cord.
Carmen studied the foal for a few minutes.
The next few minutes happened so fast that she barely had time to think, much less react.
Within minutes a truck plunged down the hill and into the yard, stopping in a spray of gravel in front of the house.
Not more than a few minutes could have elapsed, and yet there he lay – possibly dying.
We'll be taking him to ICU in a few minutes and it will be awhile before we know anything.
A nurse will take you in to see him for a few minutes.
The nurse arrived after a few minutes and led her in to see Alex.
An ambulance screamed by a few minutes later.
She was gone for only a few minutes and then returned.
He was only awake a few minutes and then fell asleep again.
She continued to work at the other bed for a few minutes and then stopped, turning to Carmen.
At any rate, he was only awake for about 30 minutes.
His father visited for a few more minutes before saying goodbye and leaving.
After he had been gone for a few minutes, Carmen dragged a chair up close to Alex.
Katie listened attentively and then thought it over a few minutes.
For a few minutes there was an uncomfortable silence at the table.
They talked a few more minutes and then ended the call without discussing the stabbing or Lori.
The apartment was quiet when she entered a few minutes later.
She lay there for a few minutes, content.
She cried for a few minutes then forced herself up.
In about five minutes, the big man there is going to wake up.
She'll be out in two minutes, but she should be …manageable when she wakes up.
Gabe waited a few more minutes then forced himself to leave.
Gabe waited a few minutes for the assassin being replaced to appear.
You have five minutes to change.
He dumped the rest in the garbage disposal and turned it on, returning a few minutes later with the other bottles.
The wind was harsher, colder than it was just a few minutes ago.
Kris was for all of five minutes.
He carried on a conversation for a few minutes, and she rested her head back, staring at the ceiling.
If you want to wait for a few minutes, I can pull up their itinerary.
His long wings beat the air as he rose, and it took him a short two minutes to soar over the castle.
The Immortals. leader cursed and paced for a few minutes after Rhyn left before disappearing into the hallway.
She waited another few minutes and then headed to the bathrooms.
She trailed it, wanting nothing more than two minutes of relative peace so she could summon a portal.
Jade was lost in his thoughts for a few minutes, staring without seeing.
A few minutes later, Rhyn went down under Gabriel.s blow, rolled, then bounded up, but not before Darkyn slashed his side.
Several minutes later, Evelyn's footsteps sounded on the wooden stairs.
The emotions behind the scenes were hot and angry before one more scene emerged-- this one lingering for what felt like minutes.
The moment dragged out for quite a few minutes, and still no one gave chase.
The strange sound continued for several minutes, and she trembled, trying hard not to think of what happened if she made it unscathed to the planet's surface.
She rose after a few minutes and stretched.
Jetr listened and spoke, glancing over after a few minutes.
A few minutes later, a group of Qatwali left the room.
She glanced at the door every few minutes, as if her abandoned husband might rush in and drag her back to his lair.
I thought that was TV nonsense until a few minutes later the phone rang and damned if he hadn't done just that!
The two men first boarded chair lift number ten and ten and a half minutes later were eighteen hundred feet higher than Fred and Donnie, at nearly eleven thousand feet elevation.
Just give me a few minutes to finish this page and I'll read it to you.
After a few minutes rest, they continued, first hearing, then seeing the waterfall and the reservoir from which the penstock first drew the water for its mile-long trip to town.
He held her for what seemed like minutes.
The next fifteen minutes were an embarrassed blur as Dean tried to stem his bleeding face at the kitchen table.
Just give me two minutes to digest this piece of charcoal, he said, biting into the blackened toast.
Then five minutes later, some guy calls asking for her, by name!
The conversation droned on for twenty minutes but Dean was never read his rights nor, surprisingly, was the interview recorded.
For the second time in a few minutes, there was a knock on the door.
They're starting on the ice climbers but they're only taking about five minutes with each of 'em. I think Penny is in there now.
Corday talked to Edith for about ten minutes, then skedaddled.
He turned toward the wall and, after what seemed like minutes, heard the bedroom door close.
They stood there together, holding each other, with her head against his chest, saying nothing, for what seemed like minutes.
I'm home five minutes and I'm getting you in trouble already.
It seems to me, that Edith had a very rapid mood change from flaunting her nakedness in front of Claire to...killing herself, practically minutes later.
All would be said and done within fifteen minutes then, but damn, did he not deserve a little fun after being the go-to guy for everyone today?
This is yours if you get those puppies bagged and ready to go in under three minutes.
After a few minutes, he heard Sarah behind him, though something sounded strange.
He paced around the parking lot for a few minutes cursing the first woman to ever deny him, and then stormed back into the bar, grabbed the red head, forced her to look into his eyes and growled, "You will not scream."
They were quiet for a few minutes.
After about ten minutes, he thought, Maybe she got the hint this morning, and headed upstairs.
A few minutes later Jackson entered.
It took her a few minutes to become accustomed to the gearing, but she was shifting smoothly much quicker than he expected.
Jackson started a fire, stood staring into it for a few minutes then said, "I'm going up, goodnight kids."
Elisabeth pulled into the drive at three minutes to six.
Honey, let's go in the kitchen for a few minutes and not bowl the poor woman over before she gets in the door.
If you have a few more minutes, I'd like to show you my stable.
They sat embraced on the piano bench for a few minutes more, then Jackson kissed her temple.
They sat at a table in the bar, and after a few minutes Sam complained, "What do we have to do to get a drink around here?"
He watched for a few minutes, then undressed and joined her.
But that lasted no more than a few minutes before the doe dropped to the ground and strained with another contraction.
He was silent for a few minutes as they sloshed toward the house.
Alex feigned and then hooked Josh's leg again with the toe of his boot, sending Josh to the floor twice in as many minutes.
A few minutes later she was kicking snow around in the chicken yard until the toe of her boot struck something solid.
The safe thing to do was to tell Katie where she was going, but the few minutes it would take might mean the life of the kid.
In a few minutes the kindling was burning.
Hiding her desire for him seemed a wise thing to do a few minutes ago, but maybe he thought she kissed every man like that.
They spent the next fifteen minutes exploring the inside of the mill, and then they went out to the bridge.
Would it have looked any better if he had come in a few minutes earlier when Alex had his hand under her shirt?
I wasn't here five minutes before you mentioned Josh.
Cece Baldwin was the only person seated at the counter when Dean arrived at the designated shop, only a few minutes before the allotted time.
I spent 20 minutes on the phone with Mrs. Glass.
For a few minutes they walked side-by-side, listening to the cicadas sing in the old oak tree by the pond.
It wouldn't take more than a few minutes in this heat before she would be ready to jump back into the water.
At the creek she pulled off her sandals and waded for a few minutes.
She drew back, wiping her mouth as if to remove the last few minutes.
Alex examined the tree for a few minutes.
Fifteen minutes later she was knocking on Lori's door.
I'll come back in a few minutes.
The mother arrived a few minutes later and as Carmen finished cleaning up the nursery, Mums and a few other women walked in.
Everything will be ready to eat in about 30 minutes.
She knew exactly where it was, so it shouldn't take more than a few minutes.
Within a few minutes, Alex arrived and whisked her off for a few private hours.
After a few more minutes of eating in silence, he put his sandwich down and turned his attention to her.
He watched her for a few more minutes.
I'll see you in a few minutes.
It seemed like only a few minutes before they were at church, making the last minute checks before she walked down the isle.
For a few minutes they moved as one to the music.
For a few minutes she lay still, basking in the security of his presence.
Ten minutes later the snack was a grilled cheese sandwich and milk.
Minutes later he was back and settling down at the table opposite her.
She watched him for a few more minutes.
Sugar Carmen stared at it for a few minutes.
They talked for a few minutes, and after they were done, she closed the phone and handed it back to Alex.
I saw something up here a few minutes ago.
A few minutes later, Alex came in from the garage.
Conversation came to a total stop for a few minutes, and then Bill changed the subject.
He ate in silence for a few minutes.
A few minutes later he sauntered into the kitchen and leaned against the door jam.
After a few minutes he finally released her.
The clinic doesn't open for another hour and a half, and I can dress in five minutes.
A few minutes later the truck engine started and he backed the Dodge 4x4 pickup out of the garage.
It took her exactly thirty minutes to shower and change.
Fifteen minutes to travel six miles to the clinic — most of it rough gravel roads.
The scary part was, she made it with three minutes to spare.
She picked at her food for a few minutes and then remembered the buffalo.
They ate in silence for a few minutes and then he spoke again.
It took the better part of forty-five minutes to reach Drake Field.
She hit every red light on the way and arrived at the airport fifteen minutes later than she had anticipated.
Sometimes she was sad and then minutes later she was searching the internet for baby things.
The pain abated and she waited a few minutes.
In a few minutes, a nurse came in and flipped a switch on the wall.
He was quiet for a few minutes, and then finally spoke in a controlled tone.
After a few tense minutes Alex emerged with Lori.
Less than fifteen minutes later, a state trooper car pulled into the yard.
For a few minutes he simply sat there, as if organizing what he wanted to say.
He sat with Lori for a few minutes so Carmen could talk to the others.
He sat down beside her and held his head in his hands for a few minutes.
A few minutes later, she emerged from the hideout.
It all boils down to a matter of minutes, he'd heard his masters saying.
He stalked to the locker room and returned a few minutes later, armed and dressed.
Ten minutes of walking later, she crouched beneath the lowest branch of a massive pine tree and inched her way to the scene.
You mind waiting a few minutes?
A few minutes later, Dusty sat up suddenly, sucking in air and gazing around him wildly.
It took nearly a half hour to find Jonathan and another fifteen minutes to separate him from two attractive girls.
A few minutes later the soft refrain of a violin drifted into the kitchen.
They arrived thirty minutes early, but there were already people waiting to get in.
A few minutes later they were joined by a girl Carmen hadn't seen since high school.
Their lovemaking lasted only a few minutes before his cell phone rang.
They talked for a few minutes and then all eyes turned to Alex when he came back in the house.
Gerald talked to the twins for a few minutes and then turned to Alex.
Okay, we'll meet you at the barn instead – in about thirty minutes?
It took her less than ten minutes to saddle Ed and ride him out of the corral.
She would be back at the house in another 45 minutes, ahead of the storm and with no one the wiser.
It should be at the house in a few minutes.
A few minutes later he leaned back over the bluff and dropped a bottle of water into Alex's waiting hands.
Within minutes Carmen was surrounded by people cleaning up the mess she had made.
A few minutes later Alex returned without Gerald.
He gazed absently at the wall for a few minutes.
For a few minutes he stared into the cup, absently swirling it around.
They met in the field and talked for a few minutes and then separated – Rob continuing toward the guest house and Alex and Gerald angled toward the footbridge.
Felipa returned a few minutes later, eyes shining and a contented smile on her face.
Alex was quiet for a few minutes and then shut his light off.
Felipa returned a few minutes later and Carmen told her about the call.
They were all for that and within minutes Carmen was alone with her thoughts.
Lunch will be ready in a few minutes.
She hadn't been home more than fifteen minutes when he drove into the garage.
Alex left the room and returned a few minutes later with his father.
Senor Medena wants us all down in the den in five minutes.
They worked quietly for a few minutes until they heard a sound in the brush.
He tried to focus on the book again, but after a few minutes something compelled him to look at her.
Thirty minutes to get to her apartment; an hour to get ready - no, better make it thirty minutes, and then another half-hour to get to her parent's house.
In a few minutes she her ride would be here and she wouldn't have to smell the stuff for four weeks.
Another thirty minutes and she would be at the old log cabin.
After thirty minutes she spotted the sign indicating the state highway where she was supposed to turn.
Only one vehicle passed her in the fifteen minutes it took her to reach the next turnoff indicated on the map.
A few minutes later a brown LTD crept up the drive and stopped.
Every few minutes she looked back to make sure she could see the cabin.
It was a few minutes before she realized the pounding noise was someone knocking at the door.
They'll be done in a few minutes and I can take her home.
Assuming she'd done all she was supposed to in order to achieve her goal, she would know his location within minutes.
Even more interested in what the Black God was doing, Xander lingered for a few minutes then left.
She slid into unconsciousness after a few minutes, and her body went limp.
You can wait ten minutes.
In a matter of ten minutes, her world turned into a freakish nightmare.
In five minutes, the hot blonde from down the street would jog by.
A few minutes later, the cat meowed at his door, indicating its entertainment – Ingrid – was gone.
After another five minutes of sweet-talking, Jessi was ready to give up.
Five minutes later, he shook his head.
Her five minutes took thirty.
She needed five minutes to herself to cool down.
She was five minutes from throwing herself at his feet.
Just in case, she waited a full two minutes outside his condo before typing in the code.
I'll start dinner in a few minutes, Jessi managed.
Jessi arrived fifteen minutes early the next day, in case Xander or Ingrid called in a substitute after she quit.
It took twenty minutes for him to weave his way through the crowd to the autograph table.
A couple minutes later, he handed it to her.
Jessi retreated to the kitchen when they entered, glancing at her phone every few minutes.
The two of them moved to the porch, where they spoke quietly for a few minutes.
She was gone in ten minutes, smiling at Jessi on her way out.
She will be number seven in about two minutes.
In a matter of twenty minutes, her whole world imploded.
The second woman in ten minutes to piss him off.
He'll be here in ten minutes when you're done cleaning your room.
Jessi's scent lingered in the air; he was only minutes behind her.
Admitting these were likely the last few minutes of her life, she was filled with regret.
With the earth moving beneath her, Jessi wasn't able to process anything she felt during the last minutes of the world, except that Xander cared enough to finish what he started in his quest for revenge.
You were dead for a few minutes.
A strength such that there is a delay of 4 or 5 minutes before any effect is apparent will be found suitable, but no great nicety of adjustment is necessary.
A curious property is to be observed when a crystal of pharmacosiderite is placed in a solution of ammonia - in a few minutes the green colour changes throughout the whole crystal to red; on placing the red crystal in dilute hydrochloric acid the green colour is restored.
A reduction has been made in the charges for trunk calls at night, and calls for single periods of three minutes are allowed at half the ordinary rates between 7 p.m.
Alembert persisted in his refusal, and the letter of Catherine was ordered to be engrossed in the minutes of the French Academy.
For suburban traffic with a service at a few minutes' interval and short distances between the stations electric traction has proved itself to be superior in many respects to the steam locomotive, but for main line traffic and long distance runs it has not yet been demonstrated that it is commercially feasible, though it is known to be practically possible.
Before the first consulship of Julius Caesar (59 B.C.), minutes of the proceedings of the senate were written and occasionally published, but unofficially; Caesar, desiring to tear away the veil of mystery which gave an unreal importance to the senate's deliberations, first ordered them to be recorded and issued authoritatively.
The term is also sometimes applied to the written minutes of a meeting or assembly.
An Anomalistic year is the time (365 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes, 48 seconds) in which the earth (and similarly for any other planet) passes from perihelion to perihelion, or from any given value of the anomaly to the same again.
Owing to the precession of the equinoxes it is longer than a tropical or sidereal year by 25 minutes and 2.3 seconds.
No sane person would suppose that the minutes of a modern legislative body explain the steps by which legislation has been passed, or the issues really involved.
Whether he used the words attributed to him in the Annual Register for 1761 is more than doubtful, but the minutes of council show that they express his meaning.
His duties are described in detail by the king's regulations, but may be summed up as consisting of seeing that the charges are in order, pointing out any informalities or defects in the charges or in the constitution of the court, seeing that any witness required by prosecutor or prisoner is summoned, keeping the minutes of the proceedings, advising on matters of law which arise at any time after the warrant for the courtmartial is issued, drawing up the findings and sentence, and forwarding the minutes when completed to the admiralty.
Then without further addition of alkali the boiling is continued for a few minutes, when the soap is ready for salting out or " graining."
When the salt is taken by the mouth, absorption is extremely rapid, the salt being present in the peripheral blood within ten minutes.
Sodium salicylate escapes from the blood mainly by the kidneys, in the secretion of which sodium salicylate and salicyluric acid can be detected within fifteen minutes of its administration.
The paper, with the specimen upwards, is then laid on bibulous paper for a few minutes to absorb as much as possible of the superfluous moisture.
In two or three minutes coagulation takes place, and the rubber is then exposed to the air on sticks, and allowed to drain for eight days.
If an article made of cut sheet be immersed for a few minutes in a bath of melted sulphur, maintained at a temperature of 120 0 C., the rubber absorbs about one-tenth of its weight of that element, and, although somewhat yellowish in colour from the presence of free sulphur, it is still unvulcanized, and unaltered as regards general properties.
It has, in general, been greatly shortened, and the ordinary sermon of to-day is no longer an elaborate piece of carefully balanced and ornamental literary architecture, but a very simple and brief homily, not occupying the listener for more than some ten minutes in the course of an elaborate service.
On the application of a small magnetizing force to a bar of soft annealed iron, a certain intensity of magnetization is instantly produced; this, however, does not remain constant, but slowly increases for some seconds or even minutes, and may ultimately attain a value nearly twice as great as that observed immediately after the force was applied.'
His trial for high treason lasted for six days (17th to 22nd of November) and ended in his acquittal, the jury only taking eight minutes to settle their verdict.
Nitroglycerin shaken up with warm very dilute alkaline solutions, as sodium carbonate, for a few minutes only, always yields sufficient nitrite to give the diazoreaction; and, as stated, strong alkaline solutions always produce some nitrite as one of the decomposition products.
This change may be made in a few minutes.
Occasionally, at very gassy and dangerous collieries, two fans and driving engines are erected at the same air shaft, and in case of accident to the fan in operation the other can be started within a few minutes.
The principal charm of his "Minutes" lies in the amusing details he has to recount about his personages, and in the plainness and truthfulness that he permits himself in face of established reputations.
Jackson (Devizes, 1862); part of another MS. on "The Natural History of Wiltshire" was printed by John Britton in 1847 for the Wiltshire Topographical Society; the Miscellanies were edited in 1890 for the Library of Old Authors; the "Minutes for Lives" were partially edited in 1813.
The longest day is 15 hours and 33 minutes, the shortest 8 hours and 50 minutes.
If double-bottomed defecators are used in sufficient number to allow an hour and a half to two hours for making each defecation, and if they are of a size which permits any one of them to be filled up by the cane-mill with juice in ten to twelve minutes, they will make as perfect a defecation as is obtainable by any known system; but their employment involves the expenditure of much high-pressure steam (as exhaust steam will not heat the juice quickly enough through the small surface of the hemispherical inner bottom), and also the use of filter presses for treating the scums. A great deal of skilled superintendence is also required, and first cost is comparatively large.
When a sufficient number are not available for a two hours' defecation, it is the practice in some factories to skim off the scums that rise to the top, and then boil up the juice for a few minutes and skim again, and, after repeating the operation once or twice, to run off the juice to separators or subsiders of any of the kinds previously described.
The latter are circular or rectangular vessels, holding from 500 to 1500 gallons each, according to the capacity of the factory, and fitted with steam coils at the bottom and skimming troughs at the top. In them the syrup is quickly brought up to the boil and skimmed for about five minutes, when it is run off to the service tanks of the vacuum pans.
The whole operation of thus changing a filter occupies about ten minutes, and there is no need for anyone to enter the hot cistern to detach the bags, which are removed in the open air above the mud tank.
Moissan succeeded in fusing about 4 lb of either of these metals in 5 or 6 minutes in a furnace similar to that last described.
The second stratum of the town lies ten minutes' climb up the side of the island.
Many electrolytic methods have been proposed for the purification of sugar; in some of them soluble anodes are used for a few minutes in weak alkaline solutions, so that the caustic alkali from the cathode reaction may precipitate chemically the hydroxide of the anode metal dissolved in the liquid, the precipitate carrying with it mechanically some of the impurities present, and thus clarifying the solution.
The first constitutional symptoms appear in fifteen minutes to two hours.
After twenty minutes they broke and fled, and the cavalry followed them till broken ground rendered further pursuit impossible.
Perhaps from five to ten minutes is a long enough time for the experiment.
Solitude is advisable at first, but few people can find time amounting to ten minutes for solitary studies of this sort, so busy and so gregarious is mankind.
Under the Aragonese, Malta, as regards local affairs, was administered bya Universitd or municipal commonwealth with wide and indefinite powers, including the election of its officers, Capitan di Verga, Jurats, &c. The minutes of the " Consiglio Popolare " of this period are preserved, showing it had no legislative power; this was vested in the king, and was exercised despotically in the interests of the Crown.
After a desperate melee of some minutes, the rally was sounded, and the survivors of the charge, breaking their way a second time through the French infantry, eventually reached the shelter of their own lines, having lost rather more than half their numbers, but having saved the situation momentarily for their own army.
The manoeuvring power of the latter attracted the admiration of the Germans, but arriving singly on the field they were generally reduced to silence in a few minutes.
In a few minutes the batteries on the extreme Prussian left were completely overwhelmed, and suddenly dense lines of French skirmishers emerged from a fold in the ground upon their flank and front, and the gunners were compelled to resort to case-shot, so imminent was their danger.
But the addition was very far from being an improvement on the work of Calippus; for instead of a difference of only five hours and fifty-three minutes between the places of the sun and moon, which was the whole error of the Calippic period, this difference, in the period of eighty-four years, amounted to one day, six hours and forty-one minutes.
According to the missionary Gaubil, the Chinese divided the day into loo ke, each ke into loo minutes, and each minute into 00 seconds.
This practice continued to prevail till the 17th century, when, at the instance of the Jesuit Schall, president of the tribunal of mathematics, they adopted the European method of dividing the day into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and each minute into sixty seconds.
The Chinese divide the time of a complete revolution of the sun with regard to the solstitial points into twelve equal portions, each corresponding to thirty days, ten hours, thirty minutes.
The " Nurnberg " ceased firing for several minutes to allow her to surrender, then gave her a final broadside, and she went down at half-past nine with flag flying.
The colonial records are preserved with those of New York and Pennsylvania; only one volume of the State Records has been published, and Minutes of the Council of Delaware State, 1776-1792 (Dover, 1886).
The whole operation requires from 8 to io minutes, giving a cutting speed of 120 to 150 sq.
The process is not continuous, but a change of crucibles only takes two or three minutes under the best conditions, and only occurs every ten or fifteen hours.
A micrometer drum reads to 2', while the vernier reads to single minutes so that very fine adjustments can be made.
The value of a tactful and efficient intermediary can hardly be over-estimated, and in the East a personal interview of a few minutes of ten results in the conclusion of some important matter which would otherwise require the exchange of a long and laborious correspondence.
The blanks fall through an aperture after having been heated for a few minutes.
Cannons were fired at the two stations at intervals of five minutes.
The motion of the fork is maintained by the clock acting through an escapement, and the dial registers both the number Koenig's of vibrations of the fork and the seconds, minutes and Tuning-fork hours.
From the minutes of this conference it is clear that the two deputations were practically at cross purposes.
At Sung-Shu the stormers got into the fort, but suffered much from the artillery on the western side of the Lun-ho valley, and were beaten out of it again in minutes; men tried in vain to get up the Lun-ho valley to take Sung-Shu in rear.
The bridge can be opened in 2 minutes, and is operated by two large electric motors.
The time of crossing is 3 or 4 minutes.
In Intermittent Registering Meters some form of ampere-meter or watt-meter registers the current or power passing into the house; and a clock motion electrically driven is made to take readings of the ampere-meter or watt-meter at definite intervals - say, every five minutes - and to add up these readings upon a set of registered dials.
The fundamental idea of Soxhlet's method for sterilizing milk is to boil it for forty minutes in small bottles holding just enough for one meal, and closing the same with an impervious stopper, which is only removed just before use.
Five heavy accurate shots from the Federal's turret guns crushed the enemy in a few minutes.
Briggs appreciated clearly the advantages of a centesimal division of the quadrant, and by dividing the degree into hundredth parts instead of into minutes, made a step towards a reformation in this respect, and but for the appearance of Vlacq's work the decimal division of the degree might have become recognized.
It is a curious fact that on the day of the earthquake at Lisbon (1st November 1775) the main spring at Teplitz ceased to flow for some minutes.
In most details the nearer a hunting man approaches to a steeple-chase jockey the better; but in the matter of the seat it must be remembered that a jockey's exertions last but a few minutes, while none can tell when the hunting man may finish his day's work; the jockey can therefore ride with more absolute grip during his race than the rider to hounds.
Speeches are limited to one hour, and may be confined in committee of the whole house to five minutes.
Although The Julian Method Of Intercalation Is Perhaps The Most Convenient That Could Be Adopted, Yet, As It Supposes The Year Too Long By Ii Minutes 14 Seconds, It Could Not Without Correction Very Long Answer The Purpose For Which It Was Devised, Namely, That Of Preserving Always The Same Interval Of Time Between The Commencement Of The Year And The Equinox.
But The True Time Of 99 Lunations Is 2923.528 Days, Which Exceeds The Above Period By 1.528 Days, Or Thirtysix Hours And A Few Minutes.
The Exact Length Of Nineteen Solar Years Is 19X365'2422=6939'6018 Days, Or 6 939 Days 14 Hours 26.592 Minutes; Hence The Period, Which Is Exactly 6940 Days, Exceeds Nineteen Revolutions Of The Sun By Nine And A Half Hours Nearly.
On The Other Hand, The Exact Time Of A Synodic Revolution Of The Moon Is 29'530588 Days; 235 Lunations, Therefore, Contain 2 35 X 29 530588 = 6 939'6 8818 Days, Or 6 939 Days 16 Hours 31 Minutes, So That The Period Exceeds 235 Lunations By Only Seven And A Half Hours.
The Lunar Cycle Contained 6 939 Days 18 Hours, Whereas The Exact Time Of 235 Lunations, As We Have Already Seen, Is 235X29.530588= 6939 Days 16 Hours 31 Minutes.
The Difference, Which Is I Hour 29 Minutes, Amounts To A Day In 308 Years, So That At The End Of This Time The New Moons Occur One Day Earlier Than They Are Indicated By The Golden Numbers.
When disturbed they make for the water, in which they swim and dive with expertness, often remaining below the surface for several minutes.
Ferryboats cross the bay to Nictheroy at intervals of 20 minutes, and smaller craft provide communication with the islands of Gobernador and Paqueta.
According to the method commonly adopted in North Italy and France the cocoons are for a few minutes immersed in water a little under the boiling point, to which a small quantity of alkali has been added.
After a few minutes the salivation is arrested owing to the constricting influence of the drug upon the blood-vessels that supply the glands.
Her first opponent she put out of action in twelve minutes, and, passing on, Hood immediately engaged other ships, the "Guerrier" being left powerless to fire a shot.
The symptoms of strychnine poisoning usually appear within twenty minutes of the ingestion of a poisonous dose, starting with an uneasy sensation, stiffness at the back of the neck, twitching of the muscles and a feeling of impending suffocation.
The average fatal dose for an adult is i 2 grs., but death has resulted in twenty minutes from 2 grain.
Idiosyncrasy plays a considerable part in determining the effects, some people being particularly susceptible; death has occurred in five minutes from the appearance of the first symptoms, but when a narcotic has been administered at the same time as the poison the development is proportionately slow.
The "Thetis" was to pass the end of the mole 25 minutes later.
This was a critical time, and it was four minutes past midnight when the little "Daffodil" came up and pushed the ship bodily into the mole.
Old Faithful, at regular intervals of 65-70 minutes, throws up a column of hot water 2 ft.
In 1892 Greenwich mean time was adopted on the railways and in the post-offices, making a difference of twenty minutes with mean Amsterdam time.
All correspondence passed through his hands, he wrote all despatches, conducted the debates over which he presided, kept the minutes, drafted the resolutions, and was ex officio the leader and spokesman of the delegates who represented the Province of Holland in the States-General.
Thus may a 20-ton charge of cast iron be converted into steel in ten minutes.'