All 20 Uses of
minute
in
Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- They had travelled together as far as this station, which was a junction; and here, in a few minutes, one train would arrive and take the girls away to one school, and in about half an hour another train would arrive and the boys would go off to another school.†
Chpt 1
- Five minutes later everyone was barefooted and wading in the cool clear water.†
Chpt 1
- So they had to content themselves with raw apples, which, as Edmund said, made one realize that school suppers weren't so bad after all — "I shouldn't mind a good thick slice of bread and margarine this minute," he added.†
Chpt 2
- That was why nobody said anything for at least a minute.†
Chpt 2
- When he went to bed that night, he thought at first that he would not be able to sleep; but he soon dropped off and it seemed only a few minutes before he felt someone gently shaking him.†
Chpt 4
- Doctor Cornelius said nothing for about two minutes, but stood still with his eyes fixed on Tarva and Alambil.†
Chpt 4
- There was a deep silence between them for a few minutes.†
Chpt 4
- A few minutes later Pattertwig arrived and had his task explained to him.†
Chpt 7
- The seat on which he sat to steer had been made for men, not Dwarfs, and his feet did not reach the floor-boards; and everyone knows how uncomfortable that is even for ten minutes.†
Chpt 9
- She went back to the bivouac, snuggled down between Susan and Peter, and was asleep in a few minutes.†
Chpt 9
- They disappear after about five minutes and then you think you have found another (and hope it is not another but more of the same one) and it also disappears, and after you have been well lured out of your right direction you realize that none of them were pats at all.†
Chpt 9
- Before they had gone many yards they were confronted with young fir woods growing on the very edge, and after they had tried to go through these, stooping and pushing for about ten minutes, they realized that, in there, it would take them an hour to do half a mile.†
Chpt 10
- In a few minutes they were at the bottom and the roaring of water filled their ears.†
Chpt 11
- There was a minute or two during which Trumpkin and the boys could hear Caspian and his two friends speaking in low voices but could not make out what they were saying.†
Chpt 12
- There was no answer, and for a few minutes it was so still that Edmund could hear the wheezy and snuffling breath of the Badger.†
Chpt 12
- The next minute or so was very confused.†
Chpt 12 *
- Why, you're doing it this minute!" bellowed Trumpkin.†
Chpt 13
- But that brute will be up again in a minute and then —†
Chpt 14
- In a few minutes all Miraz's followers were running down to the Great River in the hope of crossing the bridge to the town of Beruna and there defending themselves behind ramparts and closed gates.†
Chpt 14
- Bacchus and his people splashed forward into the shallow water, and a minute later the most curious things began happening.†
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.