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Minutes in sentence

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Well, I hope to change that in less than three minutes.
Why don't you rest for a few minutes and then we'll go on."
It's like the front door of the office is like a Cuisinart, and you walk in and your day is shredded to bits, because you have 15 minutes here, 30 minutes there, and something else happens, you're pulled off your work, then you have 20 minutes, then it's lunch, then you have something else to do ... Then you've got 15 minutes, and someone pulls you aside and asks you a question, and before you know it, it's 5 p.m., and you look back on the day, and you realize that you didn't get anything done.
You cannot ask somebody to be creative in 15 minutes and really think about a problem.
No one cared about letting people take a smoke break for 15 minutes 10 years ago, so why does anyone care if someone goes to Facebook or Twitter or YouTube here and there?
It's 10 hours of productivity taken from the rest of the organization to have this one-hour meeting, which probably should have been handled by two or three people talking for a few minutes.
But instead, there's a long scheduled meeting, because meetings are scheduled the way software works, which is in increments of 15 minutes, or 30 minutes, or an hour.
You can go 15 minutes or 30 minutes or 45 minutes or an hour.
Just as an indication, whereas a microscopist can process 40 samples in a day, a rat can process the same amount of samples in seven minutes only.
I'm Chris Nowinski, and odds are if you've met me in the last five years I've asked you, after a few minutes, a bit of an odd question: Can I have your brain?
The rule of thumb is you want to get three to four times a week exercise minimum 30 minutes an exercise session, and you want to get aerobic exercise in.
That power drill will be used around 12 to 13 minutes in its entire lifetime.
There's silence for three minutes or so as she reads.
There's an exchange between the two, which lasts about 30 minutes.
I'm going to talk over the next few minutes about my career in terms of how I'm able to study music and try to grapple with all these questions of how the brain is able to be creative.
But luckily, I found a patent online for industrial furnaces that use microwaves, and at 30 minutes at full power, and I was able to finish off the process.
Thankfully, in a few minutes, I saw the signature hive-like rash appear on my legs, which is a side effect of the medication, and I knew I'd be okay.
Only 10 minutes off the men's world record, Paula Radcliffe is essentially unbeatable.
In that very short learning curve, you've gone from broken organs up to the fact that you're only 10 minutes off the male world record.
We talked for two minutes backstage, and she talked about plantar fasciitis.
But I'm going to need you to just sit for like 10 minutes and hold a woman who is not here.
It's about 80 minutes long.
It's four minutes long.
And so what I'd like to do this morning for the next few minutes is perform a linguistic resurrection.
So I was having a coffee in Portland, and half-of-a-latte in and the little board in the cafe all of a sudden starts showing me that the next bus is coming in three minutes and the train is coming in 16 minutes.
MA: Well the interesting part was I was asked what it was like to be the first woman Secretary of State a few minutes after I'd been named.
And I said, "Well I've been a woman for 60 years, but I've only been Secretary of State for a few minutes."
If you spend five minutes with somebody, you start looking beyond their facial appearance, and the people who you're initially attracted to may seem boring and you lose interest in them, and the people who you didn't immediately seek out, because you didn't find them particularly attractive, become attractive people because of their personality.
And you can actually see here the printhead going through and printing this structure, and it takes about 40 minutes to print this structure.
What I'm going to do is give you an accelerated view of 30 minutes, again, of just life in the living room.
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