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Simple sentences
I'll wait another five minutes.
Let the tea draw for ten minutes.
He'll be along in ten minutes.
The train will be twenty minutes late.
Our car will run out of petrol in 2 minutes.
He got bored after fifteen minutes.
She got bored after fifteen minutes.
Tom can't be in the car more than ten minutes or he gets sick.
My watch is five minutes fast.
I need five more minutes.
Tom got bored after three minutes.
Tom came 30 minutes late.
I can walk to school in 10 minutes.
I can walk to school in ten minutes.
The data suggest that the optimum length of a lecture may be 30 instead of 60 minutes.
Will you listen to me for a few minutes?
Your watch is ten minutes slow.
Chestnuts have to be boiled for at least fifteen minutes.
The church clock gains three minutes a week.
Where did you go for that 30 minutes you were gone?
Can you spare me a few minutes of your valuable time?
It took him only a few minutes to realize his mistakes.
The audience applauded for a full five minutes.
The school is located within five minutes' walk of the station.
Each speaker was allotted five minutes.
The meeting finished thirty minutes ago.
To our great surprise, she held her breath for three minutes.
The church we went past crumbled five minutes afterwards due to a huge earthquake and more than a 100 churchgoers were buried alive.
It took five minutes to get to the station.
Movie subtitles
I did it in five minutes in the dark.
Two minutes of CPR, please.
Another two minutes of CPR.
Time is 22 minutes and 30 seconds.
Transit time is five, ten minutes right?
That's 28. 28 minutes.
No, that's like 40 minutes.
Well, we have about 15 minutes till school lets out.
Well, actually, if you're anything like your dad, I can just wait in the hall for a couple of minutes.
Uh, shall we commence in, say, five minutes? Need I remind you that the time alone with my client will be at my discretion?
Evan was on the Christmas float less than 90 minutes ago.
That would have occurred within two minutes.
Minutes from a closed council meeting.
This shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes.
That could take several minutes or even longer.
Because the Earth rotates, one had to correct the position every three minutes.
Programs are ready with 30 minutes to spare before showtime.
About 20 minutes at most.
We can only spend 20 minutes on the search.
Our time limit's only 20 minutes, right?
By my calculations, in another 15 minutes, the atmospheric reentry vehicles with the micro-drones will arrive at the drop point.
Hey, hurry it up. Ten minutes O-2 left.
Ten minutes for showering!
Five minutes for breakfast.
I need a taxi in five minutes.
You have 20 minutes.
The building manager, Mr. Bonneau, claimed he saw you leave 10 minutes before the crime was discovered.
Dinner will begin in 30 minutes.
I'll give you 10 minutes to decide.
I deal with many countries as Chief Prosecutor, is there any reason for me to talk to the North Korean dedication for more than 2 minutes?
I-I'D LIKE A FEW MINUTES WITH YOU NOW, PLEASE.
I-I WAS DOING SOME WORK EARLIER WITH KAREN, AND JUST WONDERING IF I COULD TALK TO HER FOR A FEW MINUTES.
I-I'LL SEE YOU IN A FEW MINUTES.
MAN: You've got ten minutes.
Can you give me ten minutes?
It would have taken ten minutes if I'd had my bike.
The minutes of the hearing arrive a few days later. The minutes of the hearing arrive a few days later.
If I don't have a husband within 5 minutes, then I'm demolishing the entire house!
I'll wait in the car at the corner for ten minutes.
News and current affairs
A team that is unable to keep going at full speed for the full 90 (or more) minutes, switch from defense to offense quickly with the whole team, and maintain control of the ball to restrict their opponents' movements won't stand much of a chance.
The Sistine Chapel cannot compare with it - most children will become bored after ten minutes by the frescoes of Michelangelo, but will watch a detergent commercial with riveted interest.
Today, the average online lifespan of proxy servers in China is a mere 30 minutes, and 17,000 Internet cafes have been shut down.
But, even if everyone in the entire world cut all residential lighting, and this translated entirely into CO2 reduction, it would be the equivalent of China pausing its CO2 emissions for less than four minutes.
Cervical cancer now kills more women than childbirth, claiming a life every two minutes.
Seven out of every eight minutes spent on a mobile phone is spent within an app, and the most popular app in the world is Facebook.
In my own case, I behave pretty well already: I swim for 50 minutes a day, I floss regularly, I eat sensibly, and so forth.
Incredibly, the lists of symptoms for some disorders were knocked out in minutes.
A friend working to provide family-planning advice to poor Kenyans recently told me that so many women were coming to the clinic that she could not spend more than five minutes with each.
The breakthrough promises new kinds of diagnosis and therapy, but what if such insights could be developed by computers in minutes, rather than decades?
Within minutes, Sam, Sue, and Sophia are headed for the karate club.
MELBOURNE - Albert Einstein once said that if he had just one hour to find a solution on which his life depended, he would spend the first 55 minutes defining the problem.
Once he knew the right question to ask, he could solve the problem in less than five minutes.
In Beslan, camouflaged men representing four ministries fussed uselessly, with no clear leader or goals, losing precious minutes when the violence erupted.
According to the minutes, Enzo Boschi, President of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, was asked if they were precursors to an earthquake resembling the one in 1703.
When the Cold War ended, the Bulletin's clock was put back to 17 minutes to midnight.
Within minutes of going online in a pastoralist community in northeast Kenya, kids were reading about their own community as part of the Africa-wide Millennium Villages Project.
Within 15 minutes of the General's face fading from the screen, 40 army units in Algeria declared their loyalty.
After all, who could be against an activity that produces uplifting stories like the cell phone ladies of Bangladesh, who lift themselves out of poverty by obtaining loans to buy phones and then selling minutes to others in the village.
In most East Asian primary schools, for example, children are given a 10-minute break every 40 minutes or so.
America's newspapers are dying, foreign news coverage has been cut to three or four minutes, at most, at the end of one or two evening newscasts, and most of its TV channels are taken up with reality shows.
The news lasted only 30 minutes, so everyone had to be absolutely quiet.
Likewise, in October 2014, US Treasury yields plummeted by almost 40 basis points in minutes, which statisticians argue should occur only once in three billion years.
In Afghanistan as a whole, a woman dies of pregnancy-related causes every 27 minutes - and perhaps even more frequently, because many such deaths go unrecorded.
Genotyping can now be accomplished in 20 minutes, and over time will get even faster.
Anyone who spends nine minutes watching the video presentation of the Arc will see that its potential is nothing short of breathtaking.
The government issued no a formal statement about Zadari's health, but his supporters disclosed that he had suffered a mild stroke, which left him unconscious for several minutes.
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