All 21 Uses of
minute
in
The Magician's Nephew
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- But Digory was disliking his Uncle more every minute, so he said nothing.†
Chpt 2
- After a few minutes hard talking they had got it straight.†
Chpt 3
- The whole thing had taken less than a minute.†
Chpt 3 *
- The quarrel lasted for several minutes but it would be dull to write it all down.†
Chpt 3
- If only Digory had remembered what he himself had said a few minutes ago, that this was an enchanted room, he might have guessed that the enchantment was beginning to work.†
Chpt 4
- Before a minute had passed it was twice as loud as it had been to begin with.†
Chpt 4
- After she had studied him for well over a minute, she let go of his chin and said: "You are no magician.†
Chpt 5
- If we are not out of it in a few minutes we shall be buried under the ruin.†
Chpt 5
- So there was silence in the room for a minute or two.†
Chpt 6
- After she had had some sal volatile and sat still for a few minutes, she said there was nothing the matter with her except a few bruises.†
Chpt 7
- She had only to wait for the end of her two hours: but every few minutes Digory would hear a cab or a baker's van or a butcher's boy coming round the corner and think "Here she comes", and then find it wasn't.†
Chpt 7
- In a few minutes it was creeping up the lower slopes of the distant mountains, making that young world every moment softer.†
Chpt 9
- Do what you're told this minute, sir," said Uncle Andrew.†
Chpt 9
- In a few minutes Digory came to the edge of the wood and there he stopped.†
Chpt 9
- I've a feeling I lived somewhere else — or was something else — before Aslan woke us all up a few minutes ago.†
Chpt 10
- In a very few minutes some of them got ahead of him.†
Chpt 10
- Now they were over the top of the cliffs and in a few minutes the valley land of Narnia had sunk out of sight behind them.†
Chpt 12
- A minute later you can be at your Mother's bedside, giving her the fruit.†
Chpt 13
- Five minutes later you will see the colour coming back to her face.†
Chpt 13
- Next minute all three of them (Uncle Andrew now awake) came tumbling into the noise, heat, and hot smells of London.†
Chpt 15
- Then Digory took a minute to get his breath, and then went softly into his Mother's room.†
Chpt 15
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.