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Discover LudwigThe phrase "actually a minute" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to clarify or correct a misunderstanding about the duration of time being discussed.
Example: "I thought the meeting would last an hour, but it’s actually a minute long."
Alternatives: "just a minute" or "only a minute".
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Actually, a minute ago I didn't even know what I was going to play but I remember that.
The standard maximum is 99, so on the CD, track 99 is actually a minute long with two tracks on it".
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Actually, wait a minute and hold the OTT irony – it really does.
And as someone who frequently talks about how passionate she is for her work, I kind of felt like, oh, oh, actually, wait a minute.
The odds of two Berniers competing for the Cup are about as long as Jonathan, the Kings' superb backup goalie, actually playing a minute this series; the starter, Jonathan Quick, owns the best save percentage (.946) and goals against (1.54) in the playoffs.
But the reviewer's uncertainty about the drug's effectiveness is not reflected in Rozerem's label, which does not include efficacy data from a clinical trial of 848 young and middle-age adults; that trial found that the drug was no more effective than a placebo, and users actually took a minute longer to fall asleep than those on the dummy pill.
Oh actually, wait a minute... Looks like he is!
More than 60 bacterial species have been documented as naturally transformable [ 15], which actually represents a minute fraction of all the bacterial species characterized thus far.
Flavoring is actually a 5 minute simmering process.
The Hour of Code is actually a 60-minute set of tutorials, including one by Mark Zuckerberg and another where you write lines of code to get an Angry Bird to catch a little piggy.
The film is actually a ninety-minute hallucination.
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