Whatever happened overtook them both within a minute or so of that altitude change request, and they were never heard from again.
Could you talk a minute about the notion of being an unreliable narrator?
It probably only took a minute or two, although it felt like hours.
Less than a minute into her big break, Slate let slip a highly audible F-bomb instead of the scripted “freaking.”
A minute ago I was convinced this wasn't going to work, and now I can feel a script forming.
Losing a million a minute, even in sleep, he thought, was disquieting.
He cries a minute, then forgets all about it, and grabs up something else to play with.
Nothing matters except that I've got this minute here with you.
And that minute he turned me from a scared kid into an outlaw—a killer.
Andy heard, for his ears were sharpened: "I thought for a minute—But it does look like him!"
"sixtieth part of an hour or degree," late 14c., from Old French minut (13c.) or directly from Medieval Latin minuta "minute, short note," from Latin minuta, noun use of fem. of minutus "small, minute" (see minute (adj.)). In Medieval Latin, pars minuta prima "first small part" was used by mathematician Ptolemy for one-sixtieth of a circle, later of an hour (next in order was secunda minuta, which became second (n.)). German Minute, Dutch minuut also are from French. Used vaguely for "short time" from late 14c. As a measure expressing distance (travel time) by 1886. Minute hand is attested from 1726.
early 15c., "chopped small," from Latin minutus "little, small, minute," past participle of minuere "to lessen, diminish" (see minus). Meaning "very small in size or degree" is attested from 1620s. Related: Minutely; minuteness.
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