Minutes in sentence

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You know my example of the Eurostar: six million pounds spent to reduce the journey time between Paris and London by about 40 minutes.

Waiting seven minutes for a train with a countdown clock is less frustrating and irritating than waiting four minutes, knuckle biting, going, "When's this train going to damn well arrive?"

This is a piece that every two or three minutes scans the world's newly-posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" or "I am feeling."

But what I want to do in the next eight minutes or so is to take you through how those passions developed, the point in my life when the two passions merged, the journey of learning that took place from that point.

They were memorizing entire poems in just a few minutes.

And so I started trying to spend 15 or 20 minutes every morning, before I sat down with my New York Times, just trying to remember something.

This is what it looks like about 20 minutes later.

Here it is about 40 minutes later.

In the next ten minutes, we will immerse ourselves in an amazing and beautiful marine world that's very often overlooked.

And then TED challenged me: "Philippe, can you shrink this lifetime to 18 minutes?"

Eighteen minutes, clearly impossible.

So basically, what we're getting here is the sequel to "An Inconvenient Truth," in about two minutes, and that actually brings up an interesting point about games.

Because it's so hard for people to think 50 or 100 years out, but when you can give them a toy, and they can experience these long-term dynamics in just a few minutes, I think it's an entirely different point of view, where we're actually using the game to remap our intuition.

It took about 17 minutes to do a single page.

Several of my friends' parents assumed within minutes of meeting me that my best skill was playing basketball.

Well, a few minutes later, she goes to the corner of the room, and she finds a tiny little piece of candy, an M&M.

We spoke for a few minutes and then each of us vanished back into the chaos.

I have 13 minutes with each patient.

We know that our doctors and nurses and even social workers aren't enough, that the ticking minutes of health care are too constraining.

In the first nine months we ran 25 clubs across the U.K., with kids in age groups between five and 18 watching a film uninterrupted for 90 minutes.

Before I do that, though, I want to spend a couple of minutes telling you how a death penalty case unfolds, and then I want to tell you two lessons that I have learned over the last 20 years as a death penalty lawyer from watching well more than a hundred cases unfold in this way.

Our typical video is two minutes, sometimes shorter, never more than six, and then we pause for a quiz question, to make it feel like one-on-one tutoring.

This motivated the students to keep going, and it also meant that everybody was working on the same thing at the same time, so if you went into a discussion forum, you could get an answer from a peer within minutes.

And the other cool thing is, not only can we move the camera around, we can also control time, so I can slide this jog dial here to shuttle time forward, and now we can see what a sunset on the ISS would look like, and they get one every 90 minutes.

Allison Hunt: My three minutes hasn't started yet, has it?

Chris Anderson: No, you can't start the three minutes.

Reset the three minutes, that's just not fair.

Fifty years later, as a tribute, the International Space Station, which is still up there tonight, synced its orbit with Gagarin's orbit, at the exact same time of day, and filmed it, so you can go online and you can watch over 100 minutes of what must have been an absolutely mesmerizing ride, possibly a lonely one, the first person to ever see such a thing.

So here's my special mission for this talk: I'm going to try to increase the life span of every single person in this room by seven and a half minutes.

Literally, you will live seven and a half minutes longer than you would have otherwise, just because you watched this talk.

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