All 50 Uses of
minute
in
Angels & Demons
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- It will be in Boston in twenty minutes.†
Chpt 2
- Minutes later, Langdon was seated inside the empty cabin.†
Chpt 4
- Sixty-four minutes had passed when an incredulous and slightly air-sick Robert Langdon stepped down the gangplank onto the sun-drenched runway.†
Chpt 6
- Any minute now I'll be waking up.†
Chpt 6
- I'll have you there in two minutes.†
Chpt 6
- It took Langdon and Kohler three more minutes to reach their destination-a large, well-kept dormitory sitting in a grove of aspens.†
Chpt 8
- A minute later the woman who had greeted him reappeared.†
Chpt 10
- She waited a few minutes and then led him up a winding marble staircase to a luxurious hallway.†
Chpt 10
- Vittoria hugged him for five minutes, crying tears of joy.†
Chpt 17-18
- Give her a minute, Langdon thought.†
Chpt 19-20
- A minute passed.†
Chpt 23-24
- Minutes later, exactly at the appointed hour, there was a loud clank of heavy keys on the other side of the door.†
Chpt 25-26
- The Hassassin waited patiently, five minutes, exactly as he had been told.†
Chpt 25-26
- The CERN switchboard had phoned five minutes ago in a frenzy to say they had an urgent call for the director.†
Chpt 27-28
- Forty minutes.†
Chpt 29-30
- The last fifteen minutes had been a blur.†
Chpt 31-32
- They had been airborne thirty-seven minutes.†
Chpt 31-32
- Following tradition, the cardinals gathered here two hours before conclave to catch up with friends and engage in last-minute discussion.†
Chpt 33-34
- Conclave begins in forty minutes.†
Chpt 35-36
- I will be back in ten minutes.†
Chpt 35-36
- "Either that," Vittoria said, "or we can spend the next five hours and forty-eight minutes in Vatican Prison.†
Chpt 37-38
- Of course, last-minute dissension in the ranks could prolong the ceremony through dawn …. or beyond.†
Chpt 37-38
- "Wait a minute," the camerlegno said.†
Chpt 39-40
- I'll be down in a minute.†
Chpt 39-40 *
- We've been trying to trace him for ten minutes, getting nothing but splayed ferreting.†
Chpt 39-40
- "In ninety minutes it begins," the caller said with a note of finality.†
Chpt 41-42
- Not only was the Sistine Chapel starting to feel like a sauna, but conclave was scheduled to begin in twenty minutes, and there was still no word on the four missing cardinals.†
Chpt 41-42
- Signore, you have ten minutes.†
Chpt 43-44
- Wasting five minutes of a reporter's time was forgivable.†
Chpt 43-44
- But Vittoria knew if news of the Vatican predicament leaked out, the entire area could fill with onlookers in a matter of minutes.†
Chpt 45-46
- Langdon, I am due in the Sistine Chapel in four minutes.†
Chpt 45-46
- Glick gazed out through the windshield and felt more and more depressed by the minute.†
Chpt 47-48
- "Give it a minute," Langdon said.†
Chpt 49-50
- Twenty minutes, we'll both be sucking wind.†
Chpt 49-50
- This'll take a minute.†
Chpt 51-52
- Archival conundrums were nothing new for him, but usually he had more than a few minutes to work them out.†
Chpt 51-52
- Minutes later, he looked down and realized he had abandoned his spatula and was turning pages by hand.†
Chpt 53-54
- Captain Rocher will be briefing the corps in two minutes.†
Chpt 55-56
- Three minutes.†
Chpt 55-56
- He lay there a long minute listening.†
Chpt 57-58
- We have fifteen minutes.†
Chpt 57-58
- "Wait a minute," he said to Olivetti.†
Chpt 57-58
- Two-minute walk, tops.†
Chpt 57-58
- Ten minutes till show time.†
Chpt 59-60
- Eight minutes.†
Chpt 61-62
- We've got four minutes!†
Chpt 61-62
- Langdon and Vittoria's taxi completed the one-mile sprint up the wide Via della Scrofa in just over a minute.†
Chpt 63-64
- "Probably," Langdon said, exhaling, "but Olivetti will be here in a minute.†
Chpt 63-64
- It had taken thirty minutes to complete the preparatory rituals leading up to this first vote.†
Chpt 67-68
- Mickey says we've got forty minutes.†
Chpt 69-70
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.