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How to use the word minutes in a Sentence?

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I remember calling Melissa Kolker and planning in 30 minutes and then calling you and talking to you about it, we were like, ‘Yeah, perfect.’.

Kourtney Kardashian

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The official declaration confirms what all could see in the video. Irvo, while facedown and handcuffed at his wrists and shackled at his ankles, was not permitted to breathe. For over 11 minutes, the ten officer/hospital defendants pushed down hard on every part of Irvo’s body until he was limp and lifeless, we cannot continue to treat the mentally ill with such brutality.

Ben Crump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Once, when we were busy, we noticed a customer who didn’t start eating for four minutes.

Kota Kai

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At last check, the pitch timer had reduced the average time of game in MiLB by about 26 minutes.

Major League Baseball

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While it’s great for baseball that they’ve shaved that 25 minutes off, it’s like the difference between a Christopher Nolan movie and a regular movie.

Neil Paine

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Putting in that pitch clock and the rules around it has been single handedly responsible for shaving off 25 minutes of kind of dead time off a baseball game, i think that’s probably still a positive in the net sense, but at the same time you do lose a little bit of that other stuff.

Neil Paine

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The protesters now have the infrastructure to take protests out (to the streets) within minutes, the infrastructure is there, and if there will be a need, there will be a comeback (to the streets).

Gideon Rahat

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At the end of the day, TikTok is owned by a Chinese company, ByteDance, and by Chinese law, that company has to be willing to turn over data to the Communist Party or, one of my bigger fears, we have 150 million Americans on TikTok, average of about 90 minutes a day, and how that channel could be used for propaganda purposes or disinformation by the Communist Party.

Mark Warner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It took about 30 or 40 minutes, but I walked with stops, because I felt a lot of pain.

Valeria Ponomarova and Andrii Bohomaz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Someone who is asleep ‘before their head hits the pillow’ is not a champion sleeper any more than an individual who can eat their entire dinner in three minutes is a highly nutritious eater, that can often be a red flag and not a sign of great sleep.

Chris Winter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Paul Sorvino was one of the greatest actors in cinematic history in Hollywood. It is unconscionable that he would be left out of the In Memoriam segment of the The Oscars, it’s a three-hour show, they ca n’t give a couple more minutes to get it right ? Paul Sorvino gave decades to this industry and was loved by all. Paul Sorvino was not the only deserving soul left out, and a QR Code is not acceptable.

Dee Dee Sorvino

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I promised to establish this hotline so that anyone could report the teaching of inappropriate lessons that rob students of precious minutes of instruction time in core academic subjects such as reading, math, science, history and the arts. That promise is being kept.

Tom Horne

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For most younger children, moving their bedtime and wake time by about 10 to 15 minutes earlier starting three days before the time change can help them adjust to the social clock time change by Monday morning.

Cora Collette Breuner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When those doors shut, I cried for 30 minutes straight, uncontrollable sobbing, because that’s how much we were holding it together for eight years.

Michelle Obama

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Don’t spend more than 5 minutes worrying about something that won’t matter in five years.

The Blonde Jon

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1 year ago

Within a matter of minutes, penguins were running into them, that tells you how desperate they are for any opportunity to find a safe place to nest.

Kevin Graham

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Fitting in 10 minutes of exercise every day is so much easier than people think. Consider how fast 10 minutes goes by when you’re mindlessly scrolling social media or watching your favorite TV show, it’s not a big-time investment, but it can deliver big health benefits.

Dana Santas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The rule of thumb is three minutes without oxygen, three days without water, three weeks without food.

Omer Yasin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

First off, Patrick Mahomes had great halftime adjustments by the coaches, i think some guys stepped up and talked and said, ‘ Let’s leave it all on the field and see what happens at the end of 30 minutes. ’ The guys responded. Everybody stepped up. Offensive line, everybody stepped up. We were able to find a way to win against a great football team.

Mickey Mouse

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was probably gone an hour and a half from my mom’s, and I saw them about 45 minutes before that.

Alex Murdaugh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We give patients this idea that they need to walk 30 minutes a day, but that’s not fair to them if they haven’t been regularly exercising, they need to build up to it by starting with five minutes of walking a day, then building up to 10, then 20 and then maybe adding in the gym. You should never just go full-on.

Elexander Atkinson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

London has stood with Kyiv since day one, since the first seconds and minutes of the full-scale war. Great Britain, you extended your helping hand when the world had not yet come to understand how to react.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So given the fact that we were close to breaking records last night, we had to go out in those conditions every 15 to 20 minutes or so.

Alexis George

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We caused the misery with the first 12 minutes, in a game like this it is not allowed. You can criticize and judge us and you are probably right because those 12 minutes are not allowed.

Jurgen Klopp

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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