Sentence examples for a minute old from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a minute old" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has just begun or is very new, often in a figurative sense.
Example: "The baby was just a minute old when the doctor handed her to her mother."
Alternatives: "just born" or "newly created".

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And the Knicks lost another starter before the game was a minute old.

They're really new at the end of the production line because they're only a minute old.

The game was barely a minute old, and the omen for Seton Hall was not good.

The second half was a minute old when he popped up just outside the Cheltenham area.

Minute mouse was literally a mouse that was a minute old, brought along in a saucer, still alive and bloody.

Rose was dominant from the opening tip, slashing into the lane for a basket that prompted Atlanta to call a timeout before the game was a minute old.

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"He would always say, 'I'm a minute older!' You couldn't argue about it".

Enunciated, the year seemed distant as a star, yet here he was again, feeling not a minute older, and sweating in the same summer heat.

He has woven rhythms out of rattling teeth and gulping digestive tracts; turned the cheep of a minute-old chicken into a funky bass line; and channeled the percussive crunch of 3,255 people biting into apples at once.

They are breathlessly delivering breaking news of "a brand-new war, only a few minutes old," against an enemy, "hostile and foreign," in an unknown country where they dress "differently from us and have strange eating habits".

TAMPA, Fla .— Training camp was just a few minutes old, a trickle of fans still making their way to the shaded metal bleachers, when Carnell Williams went looking for trouble.

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