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Your father plans to retain one old order scribe such as myself to record minutes, take letters, and accompany him to court.
Chpt 2 *

minutes = formal notes (from a meeting)
Had things been minutely different sometime earlier, the Giulianis might now be together on the beach.
Chpt 6 *

minutely = slightly

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On this line the cables always began to sing ten minutes before the tram arrived, because of the way it gripped them as it rounded the hill.†
Chpt 1
It's nowhere near; it won't come for at least ten minutes.†
Chpt 1
A few minutes later he peered into the bucket and poked the squid with his finger.†
Chpt 1
"Just a minute," Alessandro answered.†
Chpt 1
Alessandro was shocked to see the construction worker in the newspaper hat pressed up against the window behind which he himself, only a few minutes before, had been resting.†
Chpt 1
Swept up remarkably fast in a storm of passion and dreams, within a minute or two he had decided his fate and declared that he would go to Sant' Angelo, to Monte Prato, twice the distance, three times the distance, without rest, driving himself until he came close to death.†
Chpt 1
They continued in silence for ten minutes or so.†
Chpt 1
They had left the road and climbed for a minute or two to reach a ledge at the very top of a hill around which the world had been draped like a swirling fluid that has suddenly frozen.†
Chpt 1
And then, after only a few minutes, the soul that had taken flight returned to a body in which the heart was pounding like the heart of a bird that has just alighted from a long fast flight.†
Chpt 1
Tell me, a minute ago was Rome any the less, was the moon any the less, because you could not run out to greet them?†
Chpt 1
After several minutes he managed to separate a small piece from the rest and was about to eat it, when the hut master re-entered and strode across the floor.†
Chpt 1
After a few minutes, the cable shuddered, and the gondola moved off into the dark.†
Chpt 1
In less than a minute they left the envelope of cloud that covered the mountain and were in the free air.†
Chpt 1
Every minute, sometimes more frequendy, he would look up from what he was reading to see if she had come into the garden.†
Chpt 2
Though she might have fifteen or twenty minutes' head start, he could catch her.†
Chpt 2
That he knew this enabled him to ride through the city much faster than he was sure Lia had dared, and he guessed that he would cut her lead by five minutes.†
Chpt 2
After five minutes running, Alessandro heard two pistol shots.†
Chpt 2
He reasoned that if he could use such a thing to draw even with a beautiful girl who had a twenty-minute lead, he might also use it to escape the carabinieri, so, instead of veering toward the arches, he kept Enrico straight in the curve and closed on the ditch.†
Chpt 2
Though at first he put his pants on backwards, in five minutes he had shaved and bathed, and he appeared downstairs dressed like a lawyer, in suit, tie, and vest.†
Chpt 2
Ten minutes later, Alessandro poured a cup of chocolate as thick and hot as lava: the thickness, it seemed, held the heat.†
Chpt 2
I find that when I write for ten minutes or more I lose control of my hand, which pains me, and shakes.†
Chpt 2 *
Of course, not every one of the hundreds of guests at an embassy reception had the opportunity to give a speech, but Alessandro didn't need anything more, really, than fifteen minutes' barking time at a Belgian second secretary, and of this, or something like it, he was confident.†
Chpt 2
Alessandro was now more at ease, if only because ten minutes had passed and he was functioning quite well.†
Chpt 2
When one singer questioned another about a run in this theater, the query was, 'For how long did you clear the air?" meaning for how many minutes in his aria was he able to rid the sky of the paper airplanes that crossed and collided over the orchestra in a traffic unlike any that had ever been seen on earth.†
Chpt 2
I've been tapping your shoulder for at least a minute," Rafi said to Alessandro.†
Chpt 2
If it's in the hold of an oceangoing ship you may walk for ten minutes before you get to the warehouse.†
Chpt 2
Not for a day, not for a minute, not for a second.†
Chpt 2
The minute the sun flashed over the Apennines the city began to bake, even at the top of the Gianicolo, where a breeze swept through the dense pines.†
Chpt 2
Only after several minutes had passed, as the steam billowed from the tap, had she said, "Oh, I guess I'd better back up.†
Chpt 2
The minute Rafi's hands touched the rock, he knew that everything had changed.†
Chpt 2
He had taken five minutes to hammer it in, and as he worked his sweat had vanished in the brightening wind.†
Chpt 2
Instant thunder rattled their skulls and reverberated out toward other mountain ranges for a minute or more.†
Chpt 2
She took five or ten minutes to make each move, and was easily flustered.†
Chpt 2
"Wait a minute," he said to the Milanese.†
Chpt 2
If I take one step every five seconds, which will be easy to do, because the watch is marked to suit, that will be seven hundred seconds, or about twelve minutes.†
Chpt 3
For the next fifteen minutes a number of servants in the kitchens of houses on various levels of the hillside looked up from their dough and their saucepans as a bat-like figure in a dark cloak fled down the many flights of stone stairs, laughing out loud as he went, and intoning what seemed to be some sort of incantation.†
Chpt 3
"You'll have to spend ten minutes waiting for me," the old man said, "when you can probably just skip down there and jump up the steps."†
Chpt 3
They had been walking for about ten minutes, passing beneath a seemingly endless chain of dim bulbs and wood beams, when the lieutenant answered the naval cadet's question.†
Chpt 4
A few minutes later they arrived at the entrance of the Bell Tower and found themselves staring into the barrel of a machine gun.†
Chpt 4
"Wait a minute," said Alessandro.†
Chpt 4
You haven't been here for ten minutes, you goddamned fucking little chipped-tooth tick.†
Chpt 4
In about a minute and a half, he heard it.†
Chpt 4
On occasion, along a stretch of less than a kilometer, five thousand men might go over the top, and within a few minutes suffer a thousand instantly dead, a thousand wounded who would die slowly on the ground, a thousand grievously wounded, a thousand lightly wounded, and a thousand who were physically untouched but spiritually shattered for the rest of their lives, which, in some cases, was merely a matter of weeks.†
Chpt 4
The shell would go through the steel plates and that would be the end of the Bell Tower, so the minute we see a cannon we all run to fire at it with rifles and machine guns, we pull the trench mortar into the cortile and drop shells into it, and we call up our own artillery.†
Chpt 4
They won't last a minute.†
Chpt 4
Shells sped overhead several times a minute, and the Austrians compressed their answer into the period between dusk and dawn.†
Chpt 4
Their senses had been so disrupted by exploding shells that it took them fifteen minutes to understand silence.†
Chpt 4
The heavy artillery ceased except for a ten-minute barrage against the Bell Tower, which was hit by hundreds of shells.†
Chpt 4

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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