The work is of colossal dimensions, taking over one hour and thirty minutes to perform.
It can be detected with a simple, noninvasive breathing test that takes just a few minutes to perform.
By waiting 90 more minutes to perform a breech delivery, rather than immediately performing a Caesarean section, Mr. Edwards said, the doctor permanently damaged the girl's brain.
Dr. Danias, who teaches ophthalmology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, said of the procedure, "It takes approximately five minutes to perform.
Several performers were invited to audition on the "SNL" stage, where they get about seven minutes to perform characters, deliver impressions and be funny.
Before a panel of five judges, participants will have three minutes to perform five required postures and two of their choice.
As the mother of a 7-year-old daughter, she wanted to participate, even though she was given only 10 minutes to perform, on a makeshift stage, between a comedy act and a musical act.
At each competition, participants have three minutes to perform the five required postures as well as two other postures of their choosing, which do not have to be from the Bikram repertory.
For the first summer, in 2008, Ms. Mueth selected "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)," a fast-paced comedy by the Reduced Shakespeare Company that takes about 100 minutes to perform.
The symphony, which took the New York Philharmonic an hour and twenty-one minutes to perform last night (complimentary cans of Red Bull were handed out on Lincoln Center's main plaza before the show), took Bruckner more than five years to write and revise.
As a result, in the climactic moments when Plimpton gets called into the action for a few minutes to perform – in pre-season warm-up games, but in full intent – his vividly drawn teammates appear to be rooting for him just as much as any reader will undoubtedly be doing.
