All 24 Uses of
minute
in
Childhood's End
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- Their ears were still throbbing painfully, though the last thunderous echoes had died out across the lake ten minutes before.†
Chpt 1
- Wainwright should have been here five minutes ago.†
Chpt 2
- The demonstration lasted thirty minutes.†
Chpt 2
- It opened again five minutes later.†
Chpt 2 *
- Ten minutes later he was startled by the scream of a siren, and a police patrol came racing up Roosevelt Drive.†
Chpt 3
- Scarcely a minute later the machine started to whirr again.†
Chpt 3
- A minute later he came across a second sphere, waiting for him at a branch in the corridor.†
Chpt 3
- There was silence for several minutes while the physicist embroidered his writing-pad with meticulous and microscopic doodles.†
Chpt 4
- So I just turn the jets full on and it usually takes onl a minute or two to pull free.†
Chpt 7
- Their summits were streaked with snow, and the clouds above them were turning to fire as the sun descended on the last few minutes of its daily journey.†
Chpt 7
- He decided he would wait another ten minutes, then rejoin the party.†
Chpt 8
- In a more conversational tone of voice he added, "It's often ten or fifteen minutes before we get started.†
Chpt 8
- That was the business of the robot that was guiding them homewards and would land them in, so the control board announced, fifty-seven minutes from now.†
Chpt 9
- It was after another twenty minutes of slow descent that the Invisible fingers of the scanner beams caught the first glimpse of the ocean bed.†
Chpt 11
- You'll be able to see the lab in a minute.†
Chpt 11
- In a few minutes the vessel was pressed tightly against the wall of the base, the two entrance ports had locked together, and were moving forward through the hull of the submarine at the end of a giant hollow screw.†
Chpt 11
- In a community of this size, one would normally expect to dial Food Central, wait five minutes, and then get whatever meal they had selected.†
Chpt 15
- The seismographs had been able to give only fifteen minutes' warning, but that had been long enough to get everyone above the danger line.†
Chpt 16
- The planet rotates fairly slowly, so he must have observed many hours in a few minutes.†
Chpt 18
- Even so near to home, it seemed, the Overlords used some version of the Stardrive, for in a matter of minutes they were falling down through a deep, cloud-flecked atmosphere.†
Chpt 22
- Instead, he spent much time getting Jan to describe in minute detail what he had witnessed.†
Chpt 22
- A few minute, ago I saw the trail of your ship disappear in the sky. ihe Moon is just past full, and almost half its familiar side has now turned away from Earth-but I suppose you already know that.†
Chpt 24
- The glow seems to be shifting to one part of the sky-wait a minute while I move round to the other window.†
Chpt 24
- Just a minute: I've noticed something else.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) Much more commonly, minute and minutes refer to a period of time lasting 60 seconds.
Less commonly, they refer to a measurement of angle where 60 minutes make up a single degree, and where a right angle has 90 degrees and a circle has 360 degrees.