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Gullberg knew the most minute character traits, the strengths and weaknesses, of all his colleagues, but he had only a vague notion of their family lives.
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She got the board to approve two decisions and enter them in the minutes.
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minutes = formal notes (from a meeting)

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Friday, April 8 Dr. Jonasson was woken by a nurse five minutes before the helicopter was expected to land.†
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The first patrol car from the station in Trollhättan arrived a few minutes after the helicopter landed.†
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Over the next forty-five minutes Jonasson picked out no fewer than thirty-two tiny bone chips from around the entry wound.†
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This minute.†
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Then she called a taxi and jumped into the shower for a minute.†
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They sat in silence for five minutes as they ate their breakfast.†
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Berger had gathered her colleagues into Millennium's small conference room with only a few minutes' notice, just as he was about to leave early.†
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For several minutes she did not dare to approach the light.†
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After a minute she turned her head and became aware that she had on a neck brace.†
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She had been dozing only a few minutes when she became aware of movement and opened her eyelids to a narrow slit.†
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He opened a new Word document, lit a cigarette, and sat for three minutes staring at the blank screen.†
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In this issue, Millennium will tell the story of how government officials conspired against Salander in order to protect a pathological murderer......He wrote steadily for fifty minutes, primarily a recapitulation of the night on which he had found Dag Svensson and Mia Johansson and why the police had focused on Salander as the suspected killer.†
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I'll be outside the train station in forty-five minutes.†
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I'll make sure you get some painkillers in a minute.†
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Her door had been open all evening and the nurses had been in to check on her every ten minutes.†
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According to the green numerals on the digital clock on her bedside cabinet, the visit lasted precisely nine minutes.†
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It took him several minutes, and he had to stop after each step to deal with the pain.†
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That held for a few minutes, until the head of Budget pointed out that SA was not much better than SS.†
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The night nurse had been gone ten minutes; everything was quiet; it was 2:00 in the morning.†
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Going back down the corridor, he stopped at the door to his daughter's room and rested there on his crutches for half a minute, listening.†
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Presumably the reduced frequency of the nurse's visits meant that the doctors had decided her condition had improved; over the weekend the nurses had checked on her at least once every ten minutes.†
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He had walked for only about ten minutes before he found a café that served many unfamiliar types of coffee.†
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He thought about it for two minutes.†
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First, two police inspectors were given fifteen minutes to ask her questions.†
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He talked for a good thirty minutes.†
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They spoke in low voices for a few minutes before Gullberg stood up.†
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Zalachenko stood in the doorway for two minutes without moving.†
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Five minutes later she propped herself up on her right elbow, reached for the glass, and took a long drink of water.†
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I don't have time for a long conversation now—I have to meet Prosecutor Jervas in forty-five minutes.†
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Giannini was with Prosecutor Jervas for fifteen minutes.†
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Giannini had been there for only a few minutes.†
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He sat still for almost ten minutes before he heard movement in the corridor and was aware that the police had arrived.†
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Be there in five minutes.†
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She says that the murderer was an elderly man who arrived with flowers for Zalachenko minutes before the murder.†
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I've never seen him before, but I came up in the elevator with him a few minutes before it all happened.†
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Falun would make 10,000 kronor tax-free for a job that would take about ten minutes.†
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Even so, it still took five minutes to force the lock to Blomkvist's apartment.†
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In shock, she stood still for about a minute.†
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Salander can do it in five minutes.†
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It took ten minutes for Giannini to give him her account.†
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They talked for another two minutes before Blomkvist ended the conversation.†
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Could you stay there a few minutes, please?†
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She had spent thirty minutes trying to do arm lifts, stretches, and sit-ups on the recommendation of her physical therapist.†
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Finally he called for a minute's silence.†
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He was probably unconscious within a few seconds, and dead in one or two minutes.†
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We chatted for a couple of minutes.†
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Could you turn off your phone for a few minutes?†
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He looked through it for a minute before he found the number.†
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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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