All 50 Uses
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The Girl Who Played with Fire
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- The murders of Dag Svensson and Mia Johansson were not a national trauma on the scale of the murder of Olof Palme, and the investigation would not be minutely followed by a grieving nation.
Part 3 *minutely = carefully
- Her background was charted, scrutinized, and published down to the most minute detail, from her outbursts in elementary school to her being committed to St. Stefan's Psychiatric Clinic for Children, outside Uppsala, where she spent more than two years.
Part 4 *minute = minor
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- After a few minutes he stopped.†
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- He watched her in silence for two minutes.†
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- She lay for several minutes looking at the narrow strip of light over the door.†
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- The water was almost ice cold, and she stayed under the shower for five minutes to cool off.†
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- Salander had to wait only a few minutes on the road to St. George's before one of the buses pulled up.†
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- She picked up a discarded copy of the Grenadian Voice and looked through it for two minutes.†
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- He seemed utterly preoccupied and sat there motionless for seven minutes, Salander observed, before he raised his glass and took three deep swallows.†
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- It had put her abilities to the test for barely forty frustrating minutes before she understood how it worked.†
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- He had been sitting there for two hours and ten minutes.†
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- Salander stayed for ten minutes with her nose in Dimensions.†
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- Five minutes later, when Salander cleared her throat, he jumped up with a start.†
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- After a minute she had shown him an error in his calculation.†
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- This pantomime continued for twenty minutes before he turned and with rapid steps walked to the hotel's beach entrance and vanished.†
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- Salander waited for a few minutes before she went down to where Dr. Forbes had been.†
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- After a few minutes she broke off her search and went back to the hotel.†
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- Her warning had been unmistakable—if she ever found him in bed with a woman, Salander would make public the ninety-minute video that documented how he had raped her.†
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- He was obsessed with the woman and she was on his mind every waking minute.†
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- I'm meeting Charlie at the theatre in twenty minutes.†
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- Ten minutes later she had paid the deposit, adjusted the seat and rearview mirror, test-started it, and checked that there was fuel in the tank.†
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- She gave him ten minutes before she too entered the restaurant and sat outside on the veranda.†
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- Salander parked outside the Keys Hotel five minutes before the bus dropped him off.†
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- Minutes later Bilbo emailed her from a hotmail address.†
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- It took almost ten minutes to cover the four hundred yards to the shack.†
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- Salander stood on the street outside Nobel Estates for several minutes.†
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- It took her ten minutes to hack into Nobel Estates' internal computer network using the passwords she happened to notice the woman behind the counter type in before she started uploading photographs.†
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- It took three minutes to find out that the computer the woman was working on was in fact also the company's Net server—how dim can you get?†
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- —and another three minutes to gain access to all fourteen computers on the network.†
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- She had stared at him for a whole minute and decided that she did not have a grain of feeling left, because it would have been the same as bleeding to death.†
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- She walked into the kitchen naked, plugged in the refrigerator, and put the food away before she headed for the bathroom and spent the next ten minutes in the shower.†
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- She took a black trash bag from the kitchen and spent five minutes sorting the junk from the real mail.†
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- He was almost fifteen minutes late for the planning meeting that was held on the second Tuesday of each month at 10:00 a.m. sharp.†
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- They were twins, born within twenty minutes of each other.†
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- The procedure took about five minutes.†
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- A clock indicated that the process would take thirty-four minutes.†
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- Harriet reached for the contract and spent five minutes reading through it.†
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- It took her ten minutes to walk to Bellmansgatan.†
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- He stood there for two minutes with his nerves on full alert before, seeing it out of the corner of his eye, he realized that a figure was silently, slowly moving in the trees.†
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- She carried his tray away and came back a minute later with two cups of coffee.†
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- Salander thought about this for a minute.†
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- Palmgren sighed and spent five minutes studying the board.†
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- He looked at it with hate-filled eyes for more than a minute as he collected his thoughts.†
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- She had been kneading intently for twenty minutes while Salander mainly enjoyed herself and uttered an occasional groan of pleasure.†
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- Twenty minutes after they arrived, the man Blomkvist was with got a call on his mobile.†
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- Salander waited for another five minutes before she looked at Mimmi.†
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- He spent three minutes deep in thought, drawing labyrinthine rings around the name.†
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- Salander walked to OnOff on Sveavägen and made it with two minutes to spare before closing time.†
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- After only five minutes the giant left Blomberg's Café.†
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- She stood on Götgatan for a minute before heading north.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(minute as in: minute size) small, exceptionally small, or insignificant
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(2)
(minute as in: minute description) detailed (including even small considerations); and/or careful (done with care)
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(3)
(minutes as in: keep the minutes) a written record of what happened at a meeting
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(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.