Sentence examples for minutes are given from inspiring English sources

The three other minutes are given over to the extolling, by an announcer, of the sponsor's product, which, in this part of the country, is Amoco gasoline.

Later, in a disorienting change of pace, several minutes are given over to Jodie alone in her apartment, preparing for an imminent dinner date – a rushed tidy, a flick through a cook book, a frantic decision about what to wear.

Far fewer of the album's 327 minutes are given over to extemporisation or frazzled psychedelia than you might expect, given Grateful Dead's monumental reputation both as the house band at Ken Kesey's Acid Tests and as rock's premier improvisers.

More Perfect Union starts out well enough, like the Pogues at their most sullen, but then develops a fatal case of the epic affectations: an orchestra appears, the final five minutes are given over to a selection of folky riffs played in a selection of styles, including Queenish pomp and rattling hardcore.

The episode's remaining minutes are given up to a pair of pyrrhic conquests.

Product formation was analysed by HPLC and MS. HPLC retention times in minutes are given in parenthesis.

In several places an additional 40 minutes was given for a computer-based assessment of mathematics, reading and problem solving.

Recently Del Bosque admitted that he was in an "uncomfortable position" because of the relative lack of minutes being given to Negredo (who was injured), Torres and Villa.

The best-known test is the "marshmallow" experiment, in which children who could refrain from eating the confection for 15 minutes were given a second one.

A hungry dog was restrained on a stand and every few minutes was given some dry meat powder, an event signaled by an arbitrary stimulus, such as the ticking of a metronome.

Zydrunas Ilgauskas, who had 4 points and 6 rebounds in 22 minutes, was given a loud ovation in his first home game since re-signing with Cleveland on Tuesday.