According to the SERC report, a 20-minute reduction in travel time between Manchester and Leeds could add £6.7 billion to the economy of the north of England.
And the children who fell asleep faster ultimately slept longer, getting an extra hour of sleep for every 10-minute reduction in the time it took them to drift off.
Just a 20-minute reduction between Manchester and Leeds would be worth £6.7bn to the region's economy and improve labour market efficiency, according to the One North report.
And even if an individual is prepared to surrender all privacy in order to accept a minute reduction in risk of a catastrophic event, what safeguards are in place to prevent even greater catastrophes, in the hands of a state, oft-captured and oft-brutal, knowing and seeing all?
Marina Abramovic's 1976-80 "Relatinn in Movement" is a 34-minute reduction of a 16-hour performance in which a truck is driven around a courtyard in Paris while the sun sets, and then rises again, and a big black circle is ground into the pavement.
Yet the five-and-a-half-hour, three-part film (I haven't seen the 165-minute reduction) covers more than twenty years in his life, and it's a surprise to come away from such an extended encounter with a character yet have virtually no sense of him.
Providing 700 more trains a day linking key northern England cities and a 10-minute reduction in journey times between Manchester and Leeds.
A two-and-a-half-minute reduction in the film's running time in this version remains unclear in existing records.
After Fatty rung in and out at 1.56, the re-weigh showed StillStoned at 2.06 and Nuglas at 2.03, the loss of weight attributed to a minute reduction in moisture level.
