Sentence examples similar to five minute cutoff from inspiring English sources

The percentage of trains arriving at their destinations more than five minutes late — the M.T.A.'s cutoff for whether a trip is "on time" — has increased in 14 of the past 15 years.

While I waited patiently in the front row with a microphone, Manny -- who refused eye contact with me all night -- spent five minutes nervously riffing about transit issues, hoping to cutoff the room.

For the second straight day, we had missed the canyon hike we had intended to take, arriving seven minutes after the cutoff, according to the park ranger, who took evident pleasure in disappointing us and had the air less of a park ranger than of an actor playing a park ranger — I doubted that he did much "ranging".

Five minutes.

Just do five minutes".

Simmer five minutes, uncovered.

Call limit: five minutes.

Five minutes up.

Another five minutes passed.

Let stand five minutes.

Well, almost five minutes.