Certain minutes is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a specific, definite amount of time. For example: "We need to finish this task within certain minutes."
Kittles spoke optimistically about running alongside Kidd and having a magnified role with a running game and zone defenses, but Scott said he was not guaranteeing Kittles a starting job or certain minutes.
It is designed for certain minutes of magic: when the opera lets out on a winter's night and snowflakes mingle with the fountain's illuminated spray, or when, in the half hour before a concert starts, crowds swarm like moths toward the luminous box of Avery Fisher Hall.
Passengers are located to create a hotspot and to overload a specific femtocell during certain minutes, emulating a delayed boarding (passengers use their smartphones waiting for boarding).
And that's exactly what the best boxed sets of compact discs can do, too, recapture a Proustian swatch of lost time: that certain 2 minutes 28 seconds trapped in the aural amber of a 45-r.p.m. single.
It is not uncommon for new presidents to make quick changes in regulatory policy or try to reverse certain last-minute rules their predecessors enacted.
Every show, for example, is available for sponsorship, while advertisers are collaborating in the making of certain one-minute segments that run in the middle of programs.
He'd been just as certain a minute ago that he was Bill Peterson.
As the Times reports, upon his instatement as FCC chair, Pai immediately took several steps to unwind certain last-minute policies of his predecessor, Tom Wheeler.
Just as an expanding market has forced Internet service providers to widen their pricing choices, telephone companies are embracing options like per-minute charges for occasional use, monthly fees for unlimited calls or the cellular model, where a set price yields a certain number of minutes, with additional minutes costing extra.
Under MinuteShare, a Cingular customer paying a fixed monthly fee for a certain number of minutes could use those minutes to make long-distance calls over the SBC or BellSouth networks, an SBC spokesman, Michael Coe, said.
Since consumers and customers already pay a set cell-phone bill bundled with a certain number of minutes, putting some of those minutes on another network (like a Wi-Fi network) could actually save money and free the always-crowded cellular network for other calls.
