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The Barnards Elizabeth Barnard's parents lived in a minute bungalow, one of fifty or so recently run up by a speculative builder on the confines of the town.
Chpt 10 *

minute = small
Hotels, people who kept lodgings, boarding-houses-all those within a wide radius of the crimes were questioned minutely.
Chpt 17

minutely = with careful attention to detail
He then went to the hotel at which Cust had put up and extracted a minute description of that gentleman's departure.
Chpt 32 *

minute = detailed
He has no need to go into them minutely-his experience obviates that-the net result is the definite impression that something is wrong.
Chpt 34

minutely = with careful attention to detail

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Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:

He listened for a minute or two and then I saw his face change.†
Chpt 3
And a second man went in and found the shop empty, as he thought, at five minutes past six.†
Chpt 4
He was silent for a minute or two-a frown creasing his forehead.†
Chpt 4
He did not explain further, and a few minutes later we were driving on the London road in the direction of Overton.†
Chpt 5
Then perhaps I can talk to you for a few minutes if your mistress will not object.†
Chpt 5
He paused for a minute or two.†
Chpt 5
When we were once more in the street, he hesitated for a minute or two, then crossed the road.†
Chpt 6
After waiting a minute or two I followed him in.†
Chpt 6
I looked at my watch and found I was a minute slow.†
Chpt 7
That's right-a minute or two after, as a matter of fact.†
Chpt 7
I was silent for a few minutes, then I said: "What do we do next?"†
Chpt 8
For a minute I looked at him uncomprehendingly.†
Chpt 8
Twenty minutes later we were in a fast police car crossing the Thames on our way out of London.†
Chpt 9
If he says the 25th, it is the 25th-though it may have been only by a few minutes.†
Chpt 9
I stopped for a minute to retie my shoelace, and as I did so, a taxi drew up outside and a girl jumped out of it.†
Chpt 10 *
Do you know what I should like this minute?†
Chpt 10
Megan Barnard looked at him for a few minutes in silence whilst she smoked.†
Chpt 10
The girl hesitated for a minute or two.†
Chpt 11
I didn't think he'd actually done it-not for a minute!†
Chpt 11
He was silent for a minute or two, then he said: "Do you know if your sister met this married man, or any other man, lately?"†
Chpt 11
There was silence for a minute or two, then Fraser said: "The police?†
Chpt 12
His glance for a minute turned to Megan.†
Chpt 12
Poirot did not speak for a minute.†
Chpt 13
A minute or two later we were speaking to Crome over the wire.†
Chpt 14
Twenty minutes past ten?†
Chpt 14
An hour and forty minutes to go.†
Chpt 14
A few minutes later he came into the bedroom and demanded: "Mais qu'est-ce que vous faites la?†
Chpt 14
One of my men is on the phone here up to the last minute in case anything comes through.†
Chpt 14
A minute or two later a big fair-haired man with a sunburnt face entered the room.†
Chpt 15
He was silent for a minute or two.†
Chpt 15
—say he may be arrested any minute now ....†
Chpt 16
And therefore not to be arrived at in a minute.†
Chpt 17
"All the same," said Poirot after a minute or two, "I have one project that will please you-since it is active and not passive.†
Chpt 17
Mary thought a minute.†
Chpt 18
He got up and a few minutes later the meeting had dispersed.†
Chpt 18
Reflect a little minute.†
Chpt 19
She took a seat and hesitated for just a minute as though choosing her words.†
Chpt 19
She mused a minute or two.†
Chpt 20
I thought for some minutes longer.†
Chpt 20
What Poirot answered I do not know, for at that minute I heard the postman's knock and automatically I left the room.†
Chpt 20
We were all silent for a minute or two, taking in the situation.†
Chpt 21
A minute later Thora Grey entered.†
Chpt 21
Suddenly he got up, paced to and fro for a minute, then sank in a chair by the window.†
Chpt 22
No. I'm going to"—he hesitated for a minute or two—"Cheltenham—" There was something so peculiar about the tentative way he said the word that Mrs. Marbury looked at him in surprise.†
Chpt 22
A minute later he was pouring out water from the old-fashioned jug into the basin.†
Chpt 25
Did you notice a man leaving the two and fourpennies about five minutes earlier?†
Chpt 26

Definitions:

(1) (minute as in: minute size)
small, exceptionally small, or insignificant
(2) (minute as in: minute description)
detailed (including even small considerations); and/or careful (done with care)
(3) (minutes as in: keep the minutes)
a written record of what happened at a meeting
(4) (meaning too common or too 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.

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