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Eight years later, it was the 22-year-old Boxer-Cahill who became the first British woman to do so, in a time of one minute 59.05 seconds.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

The people said Xi withdrew at the last minute from the gala held last Saturday in New Delhi on the sidelines of the Brics summit, a gathering of emerging-market nations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

"I'm loving it," he says about playing non-league 19 years after Mourinho sent him on for his Chelsea debut in the 89th minute against Everton on the final day of the 2006-07 Premier League season.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

“Gail convinced me in the first minute that she was absolutely the one for the job,” he recalled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

It’s as if he’s making up for all that closeness a minute ago, creating as much distance as he can.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

The average response time for high-priority emergencies is nearly 20 minutes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Even so, it takes around 10 minutes to reach it.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

But know only that in its opening minutes we learn that we have been swindled and are now part of a ritual of sorts to summon said alien.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

There are only minutes until dinnertime on the East Coast.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

For the next twenty minutes, we talk and banter, and I decide that Candie might be a chill person.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Flyers in the race signed a last minute agreement to delay the start four days, to give opportunity for minuter mechanical overhauling, stricter sifting of entrants' abilities to fly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their regular succession, and equality of force and volume, are generalised in this moulding, while the minuter varieties which distinguish one wave from another are merged in the general type.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by John Ruskin

Even the minuter pleasures of settling a date, or classifying a title-page, were enjoyments to his incessant pen.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli

Detail.—The minuter features of a design or building, especially its mouldings and carving.

From Architecture Gothic and Renaissance by T. Roger (Thomas Roger) Smith

And some few minuter after they had exchanged their hearts' love, they also exchanged their names and addresses.

From Here and Hereafter by Barry Pain

During morning news briefings, journalists quiz Sheinbaum about the minutest details of her latest chats with Trump.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

Lt Col Hollington put together the programme for their whole-day visit, including all the preparations, which were executed to the minutest detail.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2022

“It is, in fact, his power of observation, his eye for the minutest detail, that sets him apart not only from most baseball writers but also from most writers, period.”

From Washington Post ● May 20, 2022

The responsibilities included many works of art, including the bust that Hill’s friends described as “so faithful a likeness, down to the minutest detail of resemblance and personality, as to be startling.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2017

It is so delicate that the minutest irregularities in the air surrounding the lens can be rendered distinctly visible, as I shall show by an example.

From Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach

Changes have been made since Lord Mandelson's sacking, Sir Chris added, "so that we effectively replicate what would normally happen in a panel interview... where there is a minuted conversation with the candidate".

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2025

The Kraken seized advantage about six minuted later when Vince Dunn wound up at the left point and blistered a slap shot past Dan Vladar to tie things 1-1.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2023

I had to "stand aside" and have my objection minuted in the face of a sense of the meeting that it was proper to seek such funds.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2018

The newly minuted “I Dough, I Dough” ice cream has a fitting new label and updated packaging showcasing two cows wearing top hats with their tales intertwined to show solidarity and unity.

From MSNBC ● Jun. 27, 2015

But at this moment wish to send you minuted and repeated accounts of every thing that passes in this quarter.

From Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette by Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette

He writes by hand, minuting correspondence he has seen with a letter "B" followed by the Roman numeral "XVI".

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2012

I dare say there was a vast amount of minuting, memoranduming, and despatch-boxing, on this mighty subject. 

From Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens

Leaving to Anthony the irksome task of minuting down the roll of time for one unlucky month, turn we to another personage with whom it is high time the reader should be acquainted.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by John Roby

Hushed with broad sunlight lies the hill,   And, minuting the long day's loss, The cedar's shadow, slow and still,   Creeps o'er its dial of gray moss.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell

However, he was resolved to stick to the Great Department; and so the work of form-filling, corresponding, minuting, memorandum-making, signing, counter-signing, counter-counter-signing, referring backwards and forwards, and referring sideways, crosswise, and zig-zag, recommenced.

From Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens