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The part of a sentence "not a single minute" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It means "not even a small amount of time." Example: She didn't waste not a single minute in completing her assignment and submitted it ahead of the deadline.
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None of it, not a single minute?
Not a single minute of a single day were our coordinates, companions and calorie intake not known to our parents.
He was given not a single minute in which to prove himself a candidate for the final 23-man party.
In fact, NBC's Meet the Press devoted 23 minutes to Trump that year – but not a single minute to climate change.
"The cinema industry is now suffering so much in this financial crisis that not a single minute of filming can be wasted," he said.
For all that his summer ended with a World Cup medal round his neck and a large tattoo of the trophy on his left shoulder (no matter that he saw not a single minute of Brazil-based action), it started pretty poorly for Kevin Grosskreutz.
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I can honestly say there wasn't a single minute that I feared for my life or the sanctity of my most sacredly held liberal ideologies.
The bank is proud to say that they have not missed & will not miss a single minute's service in any phase of their operations.
It wasn't to be, with the Wigan striker not seeing a single minute of action for Northern Ireland, and he'll be keen to put that disappointment behind him.
No it didn't suck, it made me who I am today and I do not regret a single minute of it at all.
Not for a single minute.
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