not lose a minute

Example Sentences

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Those who love her most will not lose a minute in explaining that situation.

From The Framework of Home Rule by Childers, Erskine

I must not lose a minute, but great difficulties lay in the way.

From Roger Trewinion by King, Gunning

Come, we must not lose a minute, for I couldn't fasten the brute very well.

From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis)

For both of us, thought Rosalind, were determined to begin at once and not lose a minute.

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend

"Oh, Philip, I must not lose a minute," she exclaimed, passing the letter to him, and forgetting the pale gold hair and its owner.

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.