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Each evening she opened proceedings by reading the minutes of the previous meeting.
Chpt 10

minutes = formal notes (from a meeting)
Your minutes are certainly complete.
Chpt 10
When I 'read the minutes' I just reach back in my mind and recall what the gabble was the night before-I've got an awfully good memory.
Chpt 10 *

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Students will present themselves for physical check at 0900 Saturday in the dispensary of Templeton Gate and will start passing through the gate at 1000, using three-minute intervals by lot.†
Chpt 1
I wish we were starting this minute.†
Chpt 1
He told himself that he would watch for only ten minutes; he would not be late for dinner.†
Chpt 1
Having come two thousand miles in a split second he now had ten minutes by slide tube and a fifteen minute walk to get home.†
Chpt 1
Having come two thousand miles in a split second he now had ten minutes by slide tube and a fifteen minute walk to get home.†
Chpt 1
Ten minutes later he was arrested for waving firearms around in Rio de Janeiro's civic botanical gardens.†
Chpt 2 *
"Just a minute," Rod said insistently.†
Chpt 2
Now you can do as you please— pretend you don't know, or go have Mum cry over you, and listen to a lot of last-minute, man-to-man advice from Dad that you will never take.†
Chpt 2
He placed his order and waited for service— another ten minutes lost.†
Chpt 3
Number one goes through in six minutes.†
Chpt 3
Rod gave his name and turned away, looking for a seat, since it appeared that he had twenty minutes or so to wait.†
Chpt 3
You must pass through the door ahead in the three minutes allowed you before another candidate is started through.†
Chpt 3
He waited a few minutes, then resumed crawling.†
Chpt 3
— if it had been able to climb you would have been lunch meat five minutes ago.†
Chpt 3
After a few minutes of delicious rest Rod located the nipple of his canteen and allowed himself two swallows of water, after which he prepared supper.†
Chpt 3
Ten minutes later he was wider awake than ever.†
Chpt 3
His watch told him that it was five minutes before twelve, but he could not make up his mind whether that was noon on Sunday or midnight coming into Monday.†
Chpt 3
But it showed the direction from which he had come; five minutes later he was at the edge of the open country he had crossed the day before.†
Chpt 3
Twenty minutes later he found them, the human and the buck.†
Chpt 4
The other hunter seemed much preoccupied with the kill ...and that tree hung over the place where the butchering was going onA few minutes later Rod was again on a branch, without a knife but with a long thorn held in his teeth.†
Chpt 4
Wait a minute, Rod.†
Chpt 5
Wait a minute.†
Chpt 6
Healthier by the minute.†
Chpt 6
Hey, wait a minute.†
Chpt 7
Oh, you don't need to do it this minute.†
Chpt 8
Cowper said, just a minute, Roy.†
Chpt 8
Now wait a minute, Grant.†
Chpt 8
You wait a minute.†
Chpt 8
Can you spare me a few minutes?†
Chpt 10
Wait a minute!†
Chpt 10
But they continued to treat the water with respect; in addition to ichthyosaurs that sometimes pulled down a drinking buck there were bloodthirsty little fish that took very small bites— but they traveled in schools and could strip an animal to bones in minutes.†
Chpt 11
Five minutes later Rod was arranging a sling, half dragging Roy, white and trembling and thoroughly subdued, back up onto the shelf.†
Chpt 11
Wait a minute.†
Chpt 12
The interval is nineteen minutes now.†
Chpt 13
Cowper came up a few minutes later.†
Chpt 13
In ten minutes they accomplished the sardine-packing problem of fitting nearly seventy people into a space comfortable for not more than a dozen.†
Chpt 13
He disappeared up the path, came back in a few minutes.†
Chpt 13
You can have Mick in his place on the bellows— no, wait a minute.†
Chpt 14
"Wait a minute, Carol," Cliff protested.†
Chpt 14
"Wait a minute," Rod demanded.†
Chpt 15
I want you at my elbow every minute— we'll have somebody play your part.†
Chpt 15
Wait a minute!†
Chpt 15
Wait a minute!†
Chpt 15
Wait a minute— I haven't had breakfast; how about you?†
Chpt 15
"Wait a minute!" insisted Rod.†
Chpt 15

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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