All 24 Uses of
minute
in
The Last Battle
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- Quite apart from the cold it was no joke getting into that quivering and foaming water, and Puzzle had to stand and shiver for a whole minute before he made up his mind to do it.†
Chpt 1
- They stood like that for a minute or two and then went on.†
Chpt 2
- He may be very kind (though it's a lot more than most of you deserve) and come out for a few minutes tonight.†
Chpt 3
- My dream led me into your world scarce ten minutes since.†
Chpt 5
- Not many yards away grey battlements rose above the tree-tops, and after a minute's more walking they came out in an open grassy space.†
Chpt 5
- It was only after they had been walking Southward for several minutes that Eustace said: "Got him?†
Chpt 6
- Next minute there was a sound of rasping metal.†
Chpt 6
- He never let me out except for a minute or two at night.†
Chpt 6
- After a pause of nearly a minute a not-very-nice-looking Dwarf with hair and beard as black as soot said: "And who might you be, Missie?"†
Chpt 7
- We've been taken in once and now you expect us to be taken in again the next minute.†
Chpt 7
- The others watched it for perhaps a minute, until it streamed away into the thicker trees on their right and disappeared.†
Chpt 8
- They went on in silence for a minute or two.†
Chpt 9
- Then, after nearly a minute, the Bear began in a slow, puzzled voice: "I don't quite understand all this," it grumbled, "I thought you said —"†
Chpt 10
- Well, all you Beasts were making noise enough a minute ago.†
Chpt 10
- Eustace could never remember what happened in the next two minutes.†
Chpt 11
- We must put them to flight in a few minutes or else not at all, for we are fewer than they.†
Chpt 11
- Tirian and his friends, still panting from their fight and thankful for a few minutes' rest, stood and looked on while the Tarkaan led his men against the Dwarfs.†
Chpt 12
- Next minute they were all fighting for their lives.†
Chpt 12
- "It is the door you came through with that Calormene five minutes ago," said Peter smiling.†
Chpt 13
- But very soon every Dwarf began suspecting that every other Dwarf had found something nicer than he had, and they started grabbing and snatching, and went on to quarrelling, till in a few minutes there was a free fight and all the good food was smeared on their faces and clothes or trodden under foot.†
Chpt 13
- They disappeared into the woods and for a few minutes there was silence.†
Chpt 14
- Sometimes it seemed to have lasted only a few minutes, but at others it felt as if it might have gone on for years.†
Chpt 14
- Minute by minute the forests disappeared.†
Chpt 14 *
- Minute by minute the forests disappeared.†
Chpt 14
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.