She lived in a separate house, a few minutes away. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

If I hurried I could be there in fifteen minutes. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Feathers litter the floor under his cage, and he refuses to return to it even after a generous forty-five minutes of head time. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave me directions and a few minutes later I pulled into the parking lot of a small storefront on the town’s Main Street. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I work out, too, in my normal life and take a certain macho pride in the Vs of sweat that form on my T-shirt after ten minutes or more on the StairMaster. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could go there, I said, and relax for a few minutes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For who could sleep in a house—a modest one-story house—where all night the telephone had been sounding every few minutes? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ninety minutes above the river, I crested a broad ridge, passed a matrix of rock-walled yak corrals, and abrupdy found myself in downtown Namche Bazaar, the social and commercial hub of Sherpa society. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty long minutes I could have been sleeping. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I only had a couple of minutes to chat with Rose before they said she had to go. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He awoke minutes later only to laugh himself to sleep again, and so he continued, laughing and sleeping and laughing again, all afternoon, until at last he slipped into a prolonged slumber. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

You get three showers a week and are allowed forty-five minutes in a small caged area for exercise a few times a week. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He asked if Shin would mind lending him his coat for a few minutes. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I’m in the passenger seat and I keep my head down on the dashboard, and for a good ten minutes, I forget to put on my seat belt. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Lynn put it there a few minutes ago; she seemed confused that I did not wrap my hand around it and put it somewhere, in a holster or under the waistband of my jeans. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

In about twenty minutes he woke up, and said to me quite cheerfully:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes’ walk took them to a grand stone-fronted building where they sat in a wide dining room with snowy cloths and bright silver on the tables, and ate calves’ liver and bacon. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

What feels like just minutes later, my eyes jump back open. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Coach Mustilli worked with me one-on-one during practice for at least thirty minutes every day until he was confident he could turn me loose with the rest of the saber fencers. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The print next went into the fixer for two minutes, which would make it light safe. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Thirty minutes later, he emerges from the bathroom a new man. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

We were allowed to browse for the first fifteen minutes. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I loiter near the smithy door for long minutes before entering. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In fifteen minutes they came abreast of the drifting boat and Abel turned back the throttle. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The early minutes of the game felt like the scrimmage days before against the Under Fifteens; the Fugees were outplaying the competition but were unable to score. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Only 7 minutes later, I get my first response. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

With the money I make from my numerous inventions, I build my own spaceship and discover another planet that looks a lot like Earth and is only twenty minutes away. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

With liberation just a few minutes away, everyone is smiling. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When things began to calm down a few minutes later, I found that neither my shoe nor my wife could be located. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like a lot at first, but Todd put five slices away in as many minutes. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Seven briefly debated what to do, but she knew Valley had a few minutes at least; Thorn had almost no time before she would be taken away forever. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Really, my mom can read the newspaper in fifteen minutes and tell me baseball scores, the location of every war, the latest guy to win the Lottery, and the high temperature in Des Moines, Iowa. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s been over twenty minutes, young lady, and for such a simple and easy task. Why?” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

My parents would kill me if they knew I was calling long distance, but hopefully they wouldn’t notice if I kept the call under fifteen minutes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

How many different names had been uttered in the last five minutes? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drove ten minutes before he even said anything.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

It took them fifteen minutes to work their way through the crowd, even with Jelly's belly leading the way. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Giti had secretly met him twice for tea, fifteen minutes each time, at a small teahouse on the other side of town, in Taimani. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Especially since she makes him bring his backpack inside the restaurant—with her treasure box inside—and glances at it every few minutes like it’s going to suddenly sprout legs, hop up, and scurry away. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

By the third day his eyes ached unbearably and his spectacles needed wiping every few minutes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It was more natural to exist from moment to moment, accepting another ten minutes’ life even with the certainty that there was torture at the end of it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes after bringing the four men to the staging ground, he was on another boat, looking for people in need. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She had just gotten home from work a few minutes before and had started on dinner by dumping a brick of frozen peas into a glass bowl. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Five minutes, later, in clean T-shirt and jeans, Gerald walked slowly to the kitchen. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was told later that I’d been unconscious, hidden under the mattress, for several minutes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, the three of us are in Dad’s car, driving north on 1-5. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Gran twitters on for another five minutes, filling me in on mundane news: Heather has decided she wants to become a librarian. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she was so much as five minutes late, her mother would freak, but she still wouldn’t buy Scarlett a phone of her own. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It was a tired little mouse that crawled into bed a few minutes later—tired but ready for sleep at last. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Only for a few minutes. I’ll be back once I’m done.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You all eat by eleven. Don’t take more’n ten minutes to eat.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several were felled before Jess Squirrel and Winifred, along with some crack otter slingers, sent down a barrage so swift and accurate that it decimated the ferrets within minutes. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When her sort-of stepbrother fell asleep around nine, she asked Park to call her back in fifteen minutes, so she could put the kid to bed. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

After several more minutes, a group of Cossack performers appeared from one of the tents. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I’m in too good a mood to argue anymore, so I tell him he can use it in ten minutes. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

No one moved for a good five minutes. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“We’ll take you both on and get you some dry clothes. Just hold on a few minutes more till we get Hannah.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

After I left, I sat in the car, idle for a few minutes. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

For a full five minutes I am simply considered. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The laughing jokiness of the past few minutes was completely gone as Dimple pointed the camera at the statue and took a picture. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Javier would ramble about a new Gen-Gyro-Gang member, or argue with Dad for ten minutes that he knew you could reach your brain if you picked your nose hard enough. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“He could always get you to sleep. No matter what. Even when you were teething, a few minutes on his chest and you were out like a light. You loved it when he held you.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

And the TV was off, even though T & T would be on in a few minutes. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, Mr. Nagahachi tells the captain he’ll buy the whole fish for sixteen dollars a pound, cash or certified check. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was over fiftieth level, so it would remain in existence for the spell’s maximum duration: fifteen minutes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“But it is too far, indeed it is, to be walking quite alone. Let my father’s servant go with you.—Let me order the carriage. It can be round in five minutes.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes, listening to the last twenty minutes, and it feels like Arthur is right beside me. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

And the few minutes I had to make a good impression were all going to hell, and I could feel my composure unraveling. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Within minutes, some 1,500 marchers had lined up and started to move out. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, put your stuff in your room and meet me in the hotel lobby in twenty minutes,” he said when the taxi dropped us off at the hotel. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Still, the men ventured forth, and ten minutes later we were able to put away the candles. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Only about thirty-five minutes have elapsed since it began. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Quickening my pace, I began to search, and in a few minutes I saw them, standing together and looking as sorrowful as the giants. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

When she sees all six tabs in place, she knows 30 minutes are done, and she gets her reward. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“I’ll make an excuse and get out of here quick. Meet you at the tree in twenty minutes?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The news reached her twenty minutes after the shooting. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

R.C. turned back to his own pole and for a few minutes was quiet But only for a few minutes. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

It takes a few minutes to power up because it’s not exactly the newest model, or even the newly old model. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Even after I reminded them: He could die in, like, twenty minutes..We ought to yell something... Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Even though Rhiannon was concerned about Justin having to wait for us, he ends up coming ten minutes after we do. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

And then the next thing I knew, forty minutes had passed and the trailer door opened and Dell Duke appeared with Quang-ha at his side. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I’ll be back in three or four minutes,” he said to Rick. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I was still thinking about what I’d heard when, several minutes later, there were footsteps and Francis emerged in the kitchen, edging his way around the ironing board to gather his gloves and scarf. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Visiting hours start in ten minutes. Make sure you have ID!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

‘Teddy. Darling. Let Mother sleep just five minutes more, like a sweet boy.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

And even five minutes before the game, in the dugout, he bent down, pretending to tie his shoe, and closed one eye and prayed: “Please let me win this ball game.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you can hang over the chasm for five minutes, I will forget your cowardice. If you can’t, I will not allow you to continue initiation.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Ten minutes,” the guard barks at us, and then turns and walks out my door. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

On the days I miss Quinton the most, Elsie and I spend the last few minutes before curfew looking at old magazines about VanQuish. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I’m down in the cafeteria, grabbing a cup of tea, but you could call back in five minutes.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Curtis and I only have five minutes to chat.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, Connor exited with his father and two other men, all deep in conversation. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I came in five minutes after, and I didn’t hug you, and I didn’t comfort you, because I thought it would be wrong to comfort you. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

When she’s done, I’m so relieved to have my head back that I scratch my scalp for a whole ten minutes. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Even though I’d been kneeling there for a few minutes, I was still out of breath. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Less than five minutes later she stormed back down the stairs, with her cheeks all puffed out, and flung her apron on a chair. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Women greedily clutched the babes on their laps while on the porch the shufflings and smiles, flirtings and pinching of a few minutes before were gone. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are scared, looking at the back door every ten minutes, afraid they’ll get caught talking to me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I tap the eraser against the page for a few minutes, thinking. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

A few minutes passed, his heart finally calming to a slow roll. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Brush along the gum lines. Up on the bottoms and down on the tops. Two minutes morning and night. Let’s see. Give it a try.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It took only sixty-seven minutes for the all-white male jury to find the murderers not guilty. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty minutes before, I was in my soft bed, dreaming in music. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I had made a mistake during my first five minutes in the white world. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last the BFG got clear of them all and in another couple of minutes the pack of giants was out of sight over the horizon. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'll call her in a couple of minutes," she says determinedly, "when we find your aunt's building. You won't need me after that." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been wandering around for twenty minutes trying to find you.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stream of water is cold, so I wouldn’t want the extra minutes even if I could have them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“And now it’s ten minutes past five,” I says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air around him had a greenish, muted hue, as if only several minutes of twilight remained in the day. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t about to leave the tent unguarded, even for fifteen minutes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We hung around near the back door, shuffling in our cleats, for twenty more minutes of pounding rain. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred minutes and there was still a lot of water in the cabin—the boat didn’t even feel much lighter, still lay heavily in the shallow swells. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, the guard called Mpandhlani to his side, and the two exchanged whispers. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I stayed still and I looked at my watch and I stayed still for 27 minutes. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever he here, he look like he just counting the minutes till he get to go back to his accounting job. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, the map was spread out over the steering wheel, and Chubs was gloating in the backseat. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I have exactly four minutes before I have to get back to the store and clock in. Want to walk me back?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Our interest in each other was never keener than during the fifteen minutes before the first bell of the first day. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“Go fix yourself up fast. I’m only giving you twenty minutes.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The decon shower takes seven minutes, and you are not permitted to leave during that period, because the shower needs time to work on viruses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After we drove a few minutes, much of the landscape seemed to change. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

It took him a minute to figure out that everything was arranged in alphabetical order, by the owners’ names, and a few minutes to find the Bs. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

"Good! That's very good. People want to hear that. Our people need to have someone say that to them. Why don't you let me send out an interviewer? I'll have her there in twenty minutes." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all four of us are on the western side of the gorge, thirty minutes of rough bushwhacking returns us to the Stampede Trail. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The club’s telegram reached Depew in Washington twenty minutes after the final ballot, just as Chicago’s congressional delegation began celebrating at the Willard Hotel near the White House. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

So, instead of panicking, I closed my eyes and spent the twenty minutes’ drive with Edward. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They walked through the wood for twenty minutes, talking and joking loudly, until at last they emerged on the other side and found themselves in the shadow of a gigantic stadium. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When the lights went on in the morning, she had a few minutes before Poppy wakened to work at the puzzle. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

At five minutes past seven, the phone rang. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

If he did not send for me in ten minutes I would go down anyway. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

They all sat in silence for several more minutes, and then the Huntsman stood and walked away. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

After a few more minutes of talking, Dr. Williams took Uncle Jet away and Nali and Nathan walked to the truck, holding each other. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I check every five minutes, but he doesn’t reply. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

During his fifteen minutes of prayers, he spotted Diana walking by, as well as two teachers clearly on their way out of the building. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

One day the manager knocked on the door and simply told us to get all of our things together because we only had five minutes to get out. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Laila pictured him as he must have been an hour, or maybe minutes, earlier, rushing from one room to another, slamming doors, furious and incredulous, cursing under his breath. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

After my ten minutes were elapsed I clambered up onto the carpet and dried off. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

More or less 120 minutes long distance at $1.35 per first three minutes plus thirteen for the books plus probably ten for Charley’s taxi plus probably sixty for his time came to...? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

In mere minutes the light would be too low for her to find a roost. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I just walked in behind a nurse with a badge and I got to sit next to her for like ten minutes before I got caught. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later there’s a veritable wagon train. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

For the first ten minutes I had to wipe my right hand on my fatigues at least a dozen times. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She flashed away, and was gone for five minutes. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later we were all in the pumpkin patch with our baby pumpkins that we were allowed to pick off the vines. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But five minutes after acknowledging his wasted potential, Colin Singleton was behind the wheel of his lengthy gray Oldsmobile known as Satan's Hearse. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The people primed to be rude eventually interrupted—on average after about five minutes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, they called again and demanded in that case that a rescue team bring them some flashlights. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The next week he touched my hair for what might have been five or fifty minutes. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“My mom and dad would kill me if they found me on my phone this late. Also, minutes are expensive.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And only minutes before he saw them on the execution grounds, Shin had believed he would be shot because of their recklessness. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“CO, I been waving to you for five minutes!” he shouted, greatly agitated. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After about five minutes I arrived at my destination. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, we’re all bundled up in our scarves and gloves. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes go by, and then Mrs. Van Dorn gets up, heaves a big sigh, puts her book under her arm, and starts walking slowly back toward her house. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am still seething by the time Ryan shows up, five minutes early. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

After two minutes, they would haul themselves up again and continue. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Varney entered the ready room a few minutes before 0500 and went immediately into the clipped, faintly Oxonian accent that scraped across Bull’s eardrum like a nail. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was adopted by a family about twenty minutes away. We have their information. We agreed that whenever one of you wanted to contact the other, we would let them know.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

"Very well. Go get your bags and return here in thirty minutes. My secretary will give you some letters addressed to several friends of the school. One of them will do something for you." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would take us another ten or fifteen minutes. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can he remember all that from almost forty years ago, but forget stuff that happened ten minutes earlier? Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

In twenty minutes’ time Carl returned alone, changed into a fresh T-shirt, and hunkered down on the front porch with his head in his hands. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

David and the others might be a few minutes ahead or behind him. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As the chickenhead said? Because of what I’m going to do in the next few minutes?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

It would be fifteen minutes before the sun went down and Bunnicula woke up. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

For a few minutes old Barbee had made me see the vision and now I knew that leaving the campus would be like the parting of flesh. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes later, my phone finally buzzes as I’m sitting down for lunch in the food court. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

In just a few minutes a whole week had gone by. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes passed, various Griever sounds penetrating the walls every ten to twenty seconds. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Hey, why do you look like you got fifteen minutes of sleep last night? You okay?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

They became friends, and except for the fifteen minutes he spent with her, each day seemed that it would never pass. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got up a few minutes later, I saw the sweat stains under his arms. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thirty minutes,” Naomi called softly when she found Wash by the river. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Vogel," Lewis continued, "how far can we deflect in thirty- nine minutes with the ion engines?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bell meant that the museum was closing in five minutes. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Linda dropped her arm back, laying one cool hand against his thigh, glad that he could not see her face, and neither of them said anything for a few minutes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty minutes later, she hugged Grace and then she hugged Jake. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

After several minutes in the low light I could see a cluster of homes, fairly large in size, all white. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The car with the motor running waited fifteen minutes and then they left. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, Jessie almost felt as if she could hear the brownstone’s heartbeat. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“You want to try sitting up? Or you want to wait a few minutes?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, the soldiers waved them on. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, the dogs and I are at the entrance to the park. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He spent long minutes checking through the basin to make sure the goat was complete: the legs, the head, the balls. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But in ten minutes, there would be no escape. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Each second felt like minutes as he waited for something to happen. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They had forty-five minutes to search the high-security cells, meet back at the landing, and get to the basement. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know what to expect as he sat there, but for the first ten minutes, nothing happened. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They had stood for a few minutes on the street corner together, and then the white man had handed him his card. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He would have given anything to spend a few minutes alone in Ian Rider’s office. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

There’s no trace of the boy who kissed me so desperately a few minutes ago. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes she opened the door, and as Cabot stood up to face her, she began to cry. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Hibiscus’s screaming went on for minutes after the light faded away, and Jam could feel that Pet had left, that the air held a strong emptiness where its body had been. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

They arrived at the dunes in a matter of minutes. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They take a few minutes wandering from stone to stone, among thick and thin tablets, some leaning back as if pressed by a wind. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"And our newbie for the girls, Patina—but she told me a few minutes ago that she goes by Patty—Jones." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes of smashing my nuts every time the horse trotted a step, I had to ask Nicole if we could take a break. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Let’s try the ones with less fig that we baked for twenty minutes.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

And for a few minutes I felt happy, because instead of our Circle of Friendship shrinking, the way I’d worried it might be, it actually seemed to be growing. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty minutes later, I bring over a mug of the hot tea. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“As the time interval grew smaller and changed from minutes to seconds, the tension increased by leaps and bounds,” recalled General Farrell. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He mumbled inarticulately to himself as he flipped the pages and then spoke with an abstracted air, “Sit down, Dr. Calvin! This will take me a few minutes.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

After several minutes and a final, prolonged shriek, the great iron beast shudders to a stop and exhales. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“But in five minutes I might not believe it.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

About ten minutes into class, off comes the right sneaker. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Seventeen times seventeen make four hours and forty-nine minutes.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they had five minutes to leap into action, get dressed, and line up outside. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She sat and stared, having to remind herself every few minutes that it had all really happened: the cruel pretties, the strange buildings on the edge of town, the terrible ultimatum from Dr. Cable. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Folks come in here to buy a nickel’s worth of postage and think they can spend the next three hours and thirty-three minutes turning the Clutters inside out. Pickin’ the wings off other people. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daisy was quiet for a few minutes, but at last said, “I try really hard not to judge you, Holmesy, and it’s slightly infuriating when you judge me.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They had traveled on mere minutes when Harry saw light ahead, and Yaxley and Dolohov stepped out into a clearing that Harry knew had been the place where the monstrous Aragog had once lived. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Deval called and said you’d promised to be downstairs with Mr. Ram in ten minutes,” says Mom the second I wake up. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

His swiftly moving figure was in strange contrast to the languorous slow motion of his hands just a few minutes before. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next ten minutes, ministers followed the protest of alien nerves in fortresses across the Bonecruel Mountains and the Plateau of Drume. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

It takes me only ten minutes to make my way back home. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We play this game for over 10 minutes, which is plenty of time for me to worry that I’ve made a huge mistake in telling him my secret. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, Natnael and the Under Fifteen Fugees took the field to warm up for their final game of the year. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

From there, it was but a few minutes to quiet sobbing. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

At twenty-five minutes to ten he was tapping on the closed door of Blore's room. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

One by one, following the tracks I’d made fifteen or twenty minutes earlier, Beidleman and the remainder of Fischer’s clients filed down through the worsening blizzard. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

For the next ten minutes he patiently answered questions from television, radio, and newspaper reporters, as if he had just become the second man in history to throw a perfect game in the World Series. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less than fifteen minutes later the shooting started again. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Eventually, Smith was able to leave Seabiscuit standing in there for as long as ten minutes without the horse turning a hair. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, your cab to the bus station is supposed to get here in, like, ten minutes,” Libby says, walking me to my own fence. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

That familiar debate alone chewed up a good ten minutes. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They gave themselves fifteen minutes to drink things in and get a hunch about the person. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, for a few minutes, maybe they can even be shared. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing we can use,” she said after a few minutes, “but I found their trail. Are you sure you want to do this?” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Within minutes of my banking the fire, the inside temperature took a huge step down the ladder. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

But ten minutes later, he caught her holding her breath again. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They got so good at it they could turn a plane around in five minutes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I spent a few minutes considering, as I paced the length of my bedroom floor, how embarrassing that incident had been. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

You're not really into baseball but you give the book a chance for obvious reasons, plus you need to earn some minutes. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was hard to imagine that this was the same gum-chewing girl he had just met a few minutes earlier. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

There were only minutes left before Root blue-rinsed the whole place. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes of silent reading plus fifty of math plus fifty of social studies before music class, equals one hundred and ten minutes. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“He’ll be here in a few minutes. You can wait in my office.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve only been there a few minutes when I hear it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“You will have forty minutes for this test. I suggest you use your time wisely.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

After ten minutes of rubbing he felt the sticks and they were almost cool to the touch. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found herself wondering why, in her last minutes of life before the dragon ate her, she was staring up its nose. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“She said...she was surprised Harison lasted long enough for me to fetch her. I guess with wounds like that, most folks bleed out in a few minutes. She said it was mighty peculiar.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes later he was sneaking through the junkyard. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the judges reach their table, they spend several minutes chewing and nodding. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

On our long hike up the stairs, minutes behind the regular officers, few of us had anything to say. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

French II started at 8:10, and figuring it couldn’t take more than eight minutes to put on some clothes and walk to the classrooms, I set my alarm for 8:02. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I’m not going out there and stand twenty minutes for a cab when they’ll run over me to get to you.’... The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Goll also insisted he turned in a second alarm when another man appeared ten minutes later to announce that the fire was spreading rapidly. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

They checked the condition of my heart by making me walk on a treadmill that they adjusted to get steeper and steeper as the minutes went by. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four there and four back, and somewhere along the way, those other thirteen or fourteen minutes disappear. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I waited for five long minutes, but I knew he wasn’t coming. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes he realized he needed to stop just to catch his breath every single time he shoveled. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I shouldn’t have said anything, but how could she find time to go to Lahore for shopping trips and not have time to see her family who lived just ten minutes away? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

If five cats catch five rats in five minutes, how many cats will it require to catch 100 rats in 100 minutes? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

By the time Arturo arrived, not more than ten minutes later, I was pacing outside, knotted with worry, every knot pulled so tight that it had begun to fray. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“If you can sit still for ten minutes and calm down, you can come back here and draw on your pumpkin.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had seen Lizzie not two minutes ago leaving the storeroom office. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sailing ships slid silently across the horizon, blown so fast that their lights disappeared over the curve of the earth within minutes. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Of somebody who has been calling my number for the last ten minutes, I can hear, and is as ready to give up on me as I am. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I spent more than fifteen minutes at my grandfathers house,” I said finally. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It had a proper pendulum swinging underneath it, and it chimed, too, every fifteen minutes, loud enough to make you jump if you weren’t expecting it. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Percy first,” said Mrs. Weasley, looking nervously at the clock overhead, which showed they had only five minutes to disappear casually through the barrier. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She stalked away between the lofty shelves and returned several minutes later carrying a large and moldy-looking book. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Another fifteen minutes went by while Marcus looked at the floor, the dentist paced, and I stared out the window. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Haymitch's appearance brings a round of stomping that goes on at least five minutes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Outside, the wind howled, and every few minutes a car crept by with its high beams on. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He just walked beside me, stiff as a two-by-four, asking “Are you okay?” every couple of minutes. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I come running back in with the caster in thirty minutes’ time, thoroughly relieved and a little proud of myself, since I am not normally a handy guy in a hardware store. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I decide to duck into the empty hallway where no one will see me to cool off for a couple of minutes. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I had to change the Band-Aid, which took a few minutes, but I preferred to let the traffic thin out a bit before driving home anyway. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The white men made the rounds last as long as five minutes and each of us was afraid to stop and ask for time for fear of receiving a blow that would knock us out. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave me a long look that seemed to stretch several minutes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes later, Mom was at the door. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

It’s twenty minutes later when we’re watching the local news that I realize what should have come out of my mouth. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I got to school twenty-five minutes early that morning. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes later, I'm slumped on the couch in the living room, my feet up on the coffee table. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

In the minutes they’d been there, the crowd didn’t seem to have moved at all or in any particular direction. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. It’s four ninety-five for the first five minutes.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

After much thought I decided on a restaurant called Le Madri, in downtown Manhattan, which is the kind of place where it takes five minutes to recite the list of daily specials. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I came out of the booth, after about twenty minutes or so, and got my bags and walked over to that tunnel where the cabs are and got a cab. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Within minutes, the three of them were standing before a muscular man with the head of a bull. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She stopped near the shore and watched the river for a few minutes. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“I talked to one of the aid workers for a few minutes at the clinic,” my mom says as she tucks a few stray hairs into her otherwise neat bun. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

After chatting for twenty minutes Andy extended an invitation to their whole team, including Ian, “to come ’round our camp for a wee snort” later that evening. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Three minutes after six,” she answers without looking at her watch, as if she tallied each second in her head. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took me several minutes to calm down and realize that I hadn’t killed him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nineteen minutes into the ride, Sean asked, “Were you trying to get that horse killed?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Reynie trotted through the rooms, glancing at the panels for guidance, and in a few short minutes had rung the bell again. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Why those children hardly worked fifteen minutes out of the hour, just taking off the full spools and replacing them with empty ones. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I spent restless minutes swinging the cutlass with all my might at trees that he would cut with one strike. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I think I messed up the amounts, though. Didn’t they want an hour? When I doubled the recipe, I didn’t do enough. I don’t think it’ll work over forty minutes.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

During the last few minutes Hazel had been as near to losing his head as he was ever to come. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What? You best tell him he’s got three minutes to hook it back up and get us to Windsor.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

They pulled into the store's dirt parking lot fifty minutes early and strode up the staircase and into a blast of air-conditioning. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later the calf was bawling to get in, too. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Five minutes after waking up, I was climbing away from the bivouac. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered when the doorbell would ring already, because Mom had called at least twenty minutes ago and I was getting pretty hungry. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not that he cries or gets sentimental, not at all, but he does spend a quarter of an hour—an entire fifteen minutes—rocking from his toes to his heels. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A few minutes pass but no one comes. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

In a few minutes all four bags were on the floor. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I want to give her a few minutes before I push her off the roof. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Phoebe and I stood for five minutes outside the police station, trying to make our hearts slow down, and then we went inside and stood at the counter. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Two more minutes,” my mom says and gestures to my dad to get water glasses from the cupboard. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later, when Emily finally stopped shaking, Dad picked up the phone. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Which means I have to get up extra early, since his school starts thirty minutes before mine. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The minutes stretch until they feel like hours. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Joe himself hopped out, grabbed a shovel from the back, and proceeded, in a few minutes, to divert water from Indian Creek into the Roybal ditch that led to his illegal field. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He usually stopped to talk with Mr. Charrington for a few minutes on his way upstairs. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I whisper after several minutes of walking through the halls. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ve had mine already,” I told him, “and I can only stay four minutes anyway.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re only here for a few minutes. We just couldn’t let you be alone on your birthday.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes had passed and the smell of baking cookies had started to sneak from the oven door and float around the kitchen. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He and Frank talked for a few minutes about the storm, the flood, how Frank had expected it but then hadn’t expected it at all. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, after Santa had stopped in the parlor to kiss her mother goodbye, the three of them set out for the theater. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, a few minutes ago I gathered a handful of acorns and placed them at the base of the pine tree near my fallen log. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes later, Lopsang arrived at the South Summit on his way down from the top and encountered Harris.* Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not long before I am ahead of copy and Mister Golden seems pleased with the column, the first two of which only took me about twenty minutes to write. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It seems every five minutes there’s another press conference. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

You only have six minutes, my mother says, and no, you can't get up and walk across the stage to make your point. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

After another ten minutes or so, I detect that Marv might want to head back inside. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Just two minutes into the second half, Josiah made his way through three defenders, dribbling the whole way, before finding himself with a clear shot. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Nixon’s limo pulled to the curb about five minutes later. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I often watch television while doing my chores, making sure to turn off the set fifteen minutes before they come home, so it has time to cool off. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we are not out of it in a few minutes we shall be buried under the ruin.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

In just a few minutes, I’m surrounded by other kids who look about my age. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The last time we got only five minutes. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We rummaged around those shops, and in all honesty, after the first few minutes, I think Judy Bridgewater had more or less slipped from our minds. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lelia has cookies and juice ready for the kids and coffee for the adults, who usually leave after five minutes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s going to be at Hilly’s in thirty minutes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I got over it, darling. It took me a sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mints and forty minutes to get over that boy.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes she worked out that most of the planes seemed to fly in a kind of pattern, taking it in turns to land and roar away again. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Eight whole minutes until it’s scheduled to leave. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some lady who works at Good Sam with my mother called her a few minutes ago and told her that they had just brought in some kids from Hazelwood— basketball players, she thinks. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her time here is done, and in the next few minutes she’ll be hopping in her fancy car to head up 78, probably to a town where saying a word like awesome is perfectly fine. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Finally, after about five minutes, he slowed from a canter to a steady trot—slower, but not slow enough for me to catch up. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It only took us five minutes to reach the Plaza—an old- fashioned white stone hotel with a gabled blue roof, sitting at the southeast corner of Central Park. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

After five more minutes, I throw the blanket off me in defeat. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Forty-seven minutes passed—thirty-five more than it had taken to take the test! Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“My class starts in fourteen minutes. It’s an hour long, and afterward we'll go out to eat.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Several minutes later, through the wall, came muffled sounds of him talking with Mama. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

There’s still a hole where the ceiling fan hung for ten minutes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later Ike and Felix wandered in behind him. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

They had four, maybe five minutes left before the guards cleared the road. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My homeroom teacher, Miss Allison, a young white woman with glasses who generally ignored me, would shrug as I walked in ten minutes late, apologizing about a delayed bus. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momma backed up inside herself for a few minutes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood out there for a couple of minutes. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“No, I think I’ll go rest awhile,” she says, and two minutes later I hear her creeping around upstairs in the empty bedrooms. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I had no idea how long he’d been there—probably as long as the high-pitched whining had been sounding over the bellow of the engine—certainly minutes. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It felt like only a few minutes before her mother’s hand drifted against her cheek. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

For a few minutes she sat by the fire, staring into the glow. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

This unseemly conversation, luckily, couldn’t be overheard because of the deafening roars of the vast crowd, which had begun as Caesar’s party entered the box and didn’t die down for long minutes. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I met him once for thirty minutes, and he made six puns and said “oh, fudge” twice. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Will comes home forty-five minutes late, carrying a wilted white carnation. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I was hoping to sit for a few minutes when I came out of their bedroom, but cringed when I saw the basket of clothing Parvin had brought in. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I got here a few minutes ago,” I say. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The services had lasted a little over an hour when the three minutes of prayers said for every Muslim who is dead were recited by Alhajj Heshaam Jaaber, of Elizabeth, New Jersey. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, when she reentered the drawing room in triumph, no one paid her any attention, and everything was exactly the same—tired, miserable adults sipping tea and smoking in silence. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then a few minutes later, there is this one moment when our heads get really close together. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Thirty minutes is a long time to wait for a Valentine’s date. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

When she didn’t return after three, four, five minutes, he slid his pencil into the spiral of his notebook and followed. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Waker, his junior by some twelve minutes, was a Roman Catholic priest, and in November, 1955, he was in Ecuador, attending a Jesuit conference of some kind. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

That was always good for three and a half minutes before they caught on. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Gogol’s first home is a fully furnished apartment ten minutes by foot to Harvard, twenty to MIT. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What about you?” she says after a few minutes. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

X-Ray said he’d be over in twenty minutes, but he did not sound happy about it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He figured out that when you made a withdrawal from the drive-through window at the bank, it took a few minutes for the transaction to register in the computer. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

During this time, I also spent many minutes examining the road atlas, and perusing also the relevant volumes of Mrs Jane Symons's The Wonder of England. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

But a while later, maybe a few minutes, maybe an hour, the current slowed. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

On the factory floor, my grandfather was trained for his job in seventeen minutes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He preceded me to the shower, and I locked him in for his ten or so minutes of allotted bliss. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad would listen to Miss Billsop for a few minutes, then drop you what might have been a wink, and burst out of the room again, to go to the classroom of another Gilbreth child. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were just talking, officers,” Mr. Lewis says, much softer than he was minutes ago. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Macon stepped back, one hand outstretched behind him, thinking all the while of how his father’s body had twitched and danced for whole minutes in the dirt. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held me for a few minutes then raised my face up and wiped my cheeks with the hem of her dress. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

In a few minutes it was creeping up the lower slope of the distant mountains, making that young world every moment softer. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

While I wait, I spend a full ten minutes trying to figure out how to use the toilet and another ten minutes turning the lights on and off just by waving my hands before me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I steer them out and shut the door to the bedroom, and in a few minutes, the plates and bottles and purses are collected and the group files one by one out the door. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He said the only store he remembered was about fifteen minutes away. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

At five minutes to one I heard the sound of a car in the drive, and then voices in the hall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“So, today,” Ms. Rochambeau starts off, “you’ll have just ten more minutes in your table groups to prepare your arguments, and then we’ll get to our first mock debate.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, Bill Cochran walked into his office, and Francis started to repeat the story. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

There was silence for a few long minutes, until I had an idea. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Vega had been messaging me every few minutes, but I had been ignoring him. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Branwell got up and left the room with ten minutes left on our visiting clock. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fine, then let’s go to the band room together. Band starts in thirteen minutes; we can practice for the concert.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I usually don’t talk about such things with people I’ve only known a few minutes.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They strolled together for a few minutes, like old friends. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He taught me how to break the hold, where the fingers were weakest and the bones in my arm strongest, so that after a few minutes I could cut through even his thick fingers. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I saw you sit down on the bench. My little brother’s been trying on basketball shoes for forty-five minutes.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It’s been about ten minutes, I would guess. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hang around for a few minutes in case August turns out to be inside. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

About thirty minutes later, we’re riding in his truck with the windows down. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, Safer is standing in my kitchen with a knife in his hand. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We were supposed to be on the road to Shadbush Crossing almost twenty minutes ago. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes to get out of the Place des Hirondelles, and perhaps another hour to get into hiding before the all-clear. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Just a few more minutes,” the nurse said to me. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Gerald watched her for a few minutes before he turned off her light. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For twenty minutes he asked God to bless the food. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes after the call I heard him slowly coming up the steps. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I entered the maze and wandered around in circles for a few minutes, confused. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was as if I disappeared for ten minutes. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I figure you’ve got about five minutes or you’re going to miss your bus,” Mom pointed out, breaking my thinking spell. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We were silent for a few minutes, my grandmother puffing away at her black cigar while I dozed comfortably in the warmth. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Within a few minutes, Jason and Percy were sitting up in their berths and able to talk in complete sentences. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The average commuting time is twenty-four minutes, the same as Atlanta. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Fullbrook fans stomped and clapped as we began the second period, and Freddie took another two shots in the first three minutes. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

In twenty or thirty minutes, the wind picked up sharply and Timothy said that we must stand against the palm again. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later, Lorena comes out the door with a gigantic grin on her face. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes two men and a woman came to her, but she couldn’t make out why or what they said. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was obliged, as I was saying, to spend some uncomfortable minutes standing in the drawing room yesterday afternoon while Mr Farraday went about his bantering. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

That’s why whistles: because people that sweat, and if just far enough from sweat you wont hear whistles and in eight minutes you should be that far from sweat in Boston. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The minutes I had left with him fall away like dead leaves pulled from branches. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It had taken him thirty minutes to come get me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

For the next twenty minutes or so everything had gone quite normally. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I promised I wouldn’t copy all the records, Deborah said she was going to bed again, but for the next several hours, she knocked on my door every fifteen or twenty minutes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It must have lasted for about three minutes, although it seemed like three hours. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

If I’m going to die, I don’t want to spend the last few minutes being embarrassed in the biography aisle. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

By the time he’d crossed the threshold into the Glade, the Doors were only minutes away from closing for the night. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The south county late bus doesn’t leave for another fifteen minutes, and then it’s another hour until Abby gets home. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Sometimes one of them would spend ten minutes looking through a family’s papers. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later she comes up the path from Cuddledown again. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He walked for fifteen minutes before he came to it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was no good, because I threw it away a few minutes later. But if the same thing happened today, I should keep it.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, he starts playing with his phone, and I watch the beautiful lights reflected on the water. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Will you call Bunny and ask him if he’d like to come over for a few minutes?” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

After nearly fifteen minutes of gathering opinions, Stanchion mounted the stage again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The session drags on for a torturous eternity that is just another twenty minutes. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But when she hasn't shown up ten minutes after that, the joking has stopped and we all eye one another silently. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Your grandfather was up until forty minutes ago. He had a long night.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

And yet a few minutes later I find myself scraping my plate with my spoon. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Matters were not helped by Charles stumbling in—obviously drunk—about twenty minutes into the class. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Usually, the bickering ran its course after a few minutes, but half an hour passed and not only was it still going on, it was escalating. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I sat there for five minutes staring at the green lawns and the flower tubs on the terrace. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She had just woken from a nap of twenty minutes, which she had taken on a temporary bed made from newspapers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

—Emily Dickinson And then I settle into my precalc seat twenty minutes early. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

It needs about seventeen hours of charge for seventeen minutes of chat. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The whole incident took less than two minutes, but it was the longest, most stressful two minutes of my life. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

And I wondered if she’d saved the twenty minutes for me on purpose. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

We sat for a half hour, then Doyle told us we would be moving out in fifteen minutes. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom had calculated that we could leave at 6:00 A.M. central daylight time, stop three times at twenty minutes per stop, and still arrive at our destination at 9:00 P.M. eastern daylight time. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have a League meeting in thirty minutes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Eleven hours, five minutes. That’s not bad, Cub. But the others were here three hours ago.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

When at last the motion ceased, survivors enjoyed just three minutes of calm before a second shock came, only slightly less severe than the first. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It would be another ten minutes after that when he managed to extract the first toothpick from the first classroom door and the chemistry teacher could at last get to his desk. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

About a minute and a half earlier, Franny, on a distinctly quavering note, had just declined her mother’s fourth offer within fifteen minutes to bring in a cup of “nice, hot chicken broth.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Within a few minutes, I spot a rabbit and make my first kill with the bow and arrow. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later Lupita and Salvador came out of the yellow house, wearing their old clothes. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

After a moment’s hesitation, Sticky nodded, and then Mr. Benedict added, “Now, do you truly need to use the bathroom, or can you wait a few minutes longer?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

We stayed there for what seemed like hours, though it was probably only a few minutes. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“I looked in on them about ten minutes ago, Father. They’re both sleeping like hibernating squirrels. It’s not likely that they’ll wake until evening.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I took a few minutes to stare at the floor until I was sure I could speak without squeaking or choking. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both matches took minutes, yet, seeing, I was in a zone where time slowed. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“If I’m not back in ten minutes, it means something is very wrong,” Safer says. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Kelton returns in a few minutes with the caulking and gets right to sealing the drain. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“After bombing and having escaped the enemy’s fire, I couldn’t pull myself together for ten or fifteen minutes,” said Nina Raspopova, another 46th Guards pilot. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The flames quickly died, the snow quickly melted, and within minutes all that remained was the charred foundation of the lodge. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

"Five minutes. Say what you want and be done with it." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

After several minutes, he stuck out his belly and scratched at it to show he was full. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Several minutes went past, and Mrs. Coulter felt the train taking them downward, even deeper into the mountain’s heart. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I think I could be speaking blindfolded and after five minutes, I could tell you if sitting out there before me was an all-black or an all-white audience. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later we were ready to baptize Needles in Johnnie Walker. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Some are known as “outbound” operators, selling everything from credit cards to phone minutes. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, Lefty came out to meet his wife. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It took Ishmael all of fifteen minutes to find what it was he wanted. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see Nico, but after a few minutes of walking I saw a glow up ahead. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

They gave substance to the minutes and hours otherwise dim and unrecalled. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put the meat in my basket, covering the package with a newspaper, which soaks through in minutes. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes we all started crawling down into it, without even saying we were. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the fifteen minutes it takes for her to arrive, I remind myself what an amazing friend she’s been. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, I’m in the museum in my favorite section—the Hall of Meteorites. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, Dad drove into Davis Square. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Five minutes,” I said, and did as I was told. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

We've been sitting on the elevator floor, each leaning against a separate wall, for a few minutes now. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later I called everyone to the table. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But only being able to go back in time for five minutes—that’s a serious flaw—it isn’t something you’d sell to true collectors of Dark Magic. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

When Mom was admitted, her contractions that signaled the baby was coming were two minutes apart. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I didn’t realize how hungry I’d been until I wolfed down three eggs and a loaf of bread in under five minutes. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Twenty minutes—or you won’t live to see morning,” said the officer. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It’s between periods, and I have all of two minutes to find her. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Yes—what should hurt me?—I walk fast. I shall be at home in twenty minutes.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Just a few more minutes, she told herself. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And a few minutes later, when the children were gathered on the hilltop, he dusted them again. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

They’ve painted their nails the same color blue, and one of them has the exact backpack I dumped a few minutes ago. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

So now I knew where Gregor went the last ten minutes of lunch. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Then tell me. I’ve got to go to work in a few minutes.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a few minutes—goodness, how confusing this was—I thought of digging a grave but then I realized that would be madness. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You better get cleaned up. The car’s coming in ten minutes.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He had learned from watching Rupert a few minutes before that the quicker you answered the quicker you were released. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Within a few minutes’ walk I see the vines, still waving in the wind which has just finished its eight-hour cycle. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“My parents are still married. I have to call them at the same time every night—in thirty minutes, actually. They're overprotective, I guess, but normal. We're really boring.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

It would take the peacekeepers a few minutes to get the code from Patrice, enough time for me to hide away. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

His mother hadn't moved in nearly fifteen minutes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes we heard them pile back into their truck and restart the engine, and then, at last, they were gone. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Reply from Dr. Cable: A car will be sent for you, arriving in twenty minutes.” she mumbled, but realized that it would be useless to argue. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I was today, this afternoon, for about five minutes. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

In a matter of minutes we were back before Sergeant Bloom. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a few minutes Mom called me into the kitchen for breakfast. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Naomi had swept up the sugar and cleaned the counters by the time Henry came out of the twins’ room a few minutes later. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Outside again, he spent a bungling five minutes sloppily tying the cords holding his suitcase together, and, when that was more or less accomplished, he hoisted the suitcase with a grunt and began walking west. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few long minutes and a long drive down a whole other highway, he says, “Zuri, I'm sorry I can't be more like your boy in the hood, Warren.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We only had twenty minutes before we had to head home, and now we had to go to a whole other building to talk to Professor Thomas—if she was even there at all. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I went along as fast as I could, all the while looking around for signs of people; but there was nobody and in a few minutes I got back to the wagon. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, I suddenly realized I’d drawn five pairs of dark eyes staring out of the page at me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I thought of the red kayak, how I’d seen it sunk on the bottom of the river, and stared at the wall in front of me for—I don’t know, five, ten minutes. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He learned quickly, however, and in a few minutes was walking along docilely enough, his nose to the road. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

In twelve hours I’ll be in my cap and gown getting ready to walk, and the minutes can’t go any slower. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She sat by the window—somebody had stuck a blob of chewed gum on the pane—and spent long minutes looking again at the Social Security card and driver’s license that belonged to Ngozi Okonkwo. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later we head for the door. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

For several minutes I sat dumbstruck, staring at the wreckage of the tent’s once-graceful form amid the acrid scent of singed hair and melted nylon. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after a few minutes of nonstop running across the blacktop in a sort of figure eight, my lungs were burning and I had a sharp cramp in my side. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They spoke for a few minutes, but even assuming they had chosen the English language, there was no chance of their being overheard. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, Kanue was dribbling downfield and had just passed the ball when one of the older players took him out with a vicious tackle. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The first song seemed to last twenty minutes. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is in Bournemouth, on the southern coast of England, just a few minutes walk from the sea of the English Channel. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

We just stand while the casket is lowered into the ground, and after ten minutes of respectful silence, the gravediggers move up from behind us to begin filling the open hole with dirt. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Bus leaves in ten minutes from right over there.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I need five minutes before dealing with my life again. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Not all of them, and not all at once, but in a few minutes only a few ragged stragglers remained. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy’s preoccupied with Uncle Jack stuff, so he doesn’t question why I have him drop me off thirty minutes early. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

They began to arrive a few minutes later. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They were said to be the most venomous snakes on the continent; a single bite could kill in a matter of minutes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

These solitary minutes each morning were fast becoming a habit. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole shop laughed, and after a few minutes, I was laughing with them. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Martín and Brian sat at the bar area next to the kitchen to watch TV, flipping from MMA to basketball to hockey to baseball without settling on anything for more than three minutes. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

After leaving the summit, fifteen minutes of cautious shuffling over a 7,000-foot abyss brought me to the notorious Hillary Step, a pronounced notch in the ridge that demands some technical maneuvering. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I should dress up like a horse and trot around the stage for five minutes.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

For the first few minutes the adults exchanged news. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He looked around inside the engine for about ten minutes and then wiped his face absentmindedly, so that the grease stained his cheek. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must have been twenty minutes or so later that I encountered Miss Kenton again, this time while I was busy with preparations for dinner. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was surprised when Diego texted me later that evening to meet him outside in twenty minutes. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later Abbey showed up, and we hung around until the Coral Queen was off the bottom. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She did not wonder that Lord Fredrick occasionally suffered from headaches; ten minutes of conversation with Lady Constance and she was starting to get one herself. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

For the next 15 minutes, Mr. Stoker lectures us on being honest and working hard and having principles. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We talked for a few minutes at the post office on Lexington. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It was the same amount of books, but it was always a couple minutes. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Within three minutes, the regulator had brought the Hab oxygen back up to par. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes it coughed and bucked and stopped again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Their wives came to our door daily with whole, dripping legs of something not ten minutes dead. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two whispered to each other for a few minutes. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

After ten minutes, Mr. Mason declared my dad a natural. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

When they were still a few minutes from making the shore at the foot of the hills, Lee noticed something new in the sky behind the zeppelins. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said I would and a few minutes later, a tall young Coloured nurse came in with a tray. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several times they just stopped and lowered their heads and stood blinking in the snow, and it took us five minutes of beating them and cursing them to get them going again. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within minutes, she’d blabbed to everyone, making it sound like a big joke—with Jess and the twins as the punch line. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Amil and I usually sleep through our birth minutes and then when we wake up, we stand next to the last mark we etched into the wall with a sharp rock. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I needed a good twenty minutes, at least. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes and a few turns later, it got quiet. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“You know what the city center is like! Get up a few minutes earlier!” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It seemed like only minutes before they zipped into a narrow bay. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“And my break’s only fifteen minutes, anyway, so that would be a really cheap date. You shouldn't date me—I’m obviously terrible at it.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, Suzanne quietly escapes and comes back to stand with me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I forgot about it five minutes after we got home. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

That first time, we only talked for five minutes. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

About five minutes later, Gramps cleared his throat and said, “But it will have to do.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

About forty minutes into the drive, I saw a sign on the roadside that read university of Nigeria, nsukka, and I asked Kevin if we were almost there. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“But come to think of it, he spent five minutes yakking to her on the porch when she left,” said his father. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was twenty minutes’ walk away; she could see it clearly, towering high and tossing its great head in a dialogue with the urgent wind. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Travelling just twenty feet might take them several minutes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We must have stayed like that for a good twenty minutes, until I couldn’t postpone blowing my nose anymore. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of those games when they play two minutes and then argue five. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes I straighten myself up again. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

After eating, we’re free to go outside to the courtyard for the last fifteen minutes of the lunch period. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Within minutes, Somkit stood up and slapped the motor’s metal case. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

My grandparents live fifteen minutes away in Rockville, which is the city right next to us. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Five minutes doesn’t sound like a whole lot, unless you hate public speaking. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

It took another fifteen minutes for the cab to get us to Davis Square, which meant we were ten minutes late to meet Trevor’s mom. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I sit at my desk and look like I’m listening to Mrs. Robins go on and on, just counting the minutes till three o’clock. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

None of the others leave, even though they were all finished twenty minutes ago. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

For seven, eight, or ten minutes, or however long it takes, no blinking, no movement, my eyes open but as still as a rock. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was there a reserve somewhere that was keeping it going these few extra minutes? Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The alarm will go off in seven minutes. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She stood inches from me, staring wild-eyed again for what felt like minutes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“A diversion then, Butler. Two minutes are all I need.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“You have five minutes to reach the blue door before the poison will kick in.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

For a few minutes I tried to imagine what it felt like for Gasemu when his fingers vibrated to let the last air out of his body. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s hard to say. Very quickly. I would think less than twenty minutes.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes ago, I thought he was beautiful. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The blooper was too unbelievable to keep secret for more than a few minutes. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

It was an incredible mystery to Bernabe why people did not go off their rockers every five minutes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Yeah, man. Be in front of the house in five minutes." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took us an hour to get to white church, another forty-five minutes to get to mixed church, and another forty-five minutes to drive out to Soweto for black church. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Every few minutes she could feel the tentative, jerking nibble on the end of her line. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I was learning, too, was that in the eyes of a campaign operation, any minutes or hours a candidate spends privately with family are viewed basically as a waste of that valuable time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I never saw anyone so shocked. He could not speak a word for full ten minutes. My mother was taken ill immediately, and the whole house in such confusion!” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

After a good five minutes of this, he gave the envelope a faulty tap and had to reach out quickly and grab it. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I watched the mother gorilla picking the bugs off her baby for a good five minutes before Liz cleared her throat. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The video tribute to Coach Washington was a little less than ten minutes long, mostly consisting of interviews with past teachers and students and narration over old photos. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When exhaustion finally set in, we took turns curled up on the ground, trying to steal a few minutes of sleep here and there. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

After several minutes, the nurse appeared at my side. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But after another thirty minutes, they had not gotten noticeably closer. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

High John whistled with the fairy for a few minutes, then nodded. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She spends the twelve minutes of our ride to school humming, and I spend the rest of the day peeking around corners and flinching at every unexpected sound. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Once Peeves had vanished, there was silence in the corridors; with only fifteen minutes left until curfew, most people had already returned to their common rooms. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The ride to the academy takes 103 minutes, 14 left turns, 22 right turns, and 5 times of Nana telling me not to be nervous. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I said I did, and a few minutes later I heard a loud rumble and looked out the window. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Coach had us run suicides for twenty minutes, his way of punishing us for being part of something stupid. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He called out, “Perfect timing, you two. The pizzas got here five minutes ago.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, after almost thirty minutes of typing, deleting, and typing again, she came up with something that seemed reasonable. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But even two or three minutes would have seemed like an eternity, sitting there while a group of old men debated my future. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And within months of her starting the job, tragedy struck: Harold Washington abruptly had a heart attack and died at his desk, thirty minutes after holding a press conference about low-income housing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He watches his father raise a kite within minutes into the wind, so high that Gogol must tip his head back in order to see a rippling speck against the sky. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They sat on a marble bench near the front door and told the group to start the tour without them; they planned to catch up in a few minutes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

They went on like this for several minutes. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“For a few minutes only, I am busy,” he replied, and as I picked up my basket he peered in. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then again, since Uncle Jet hadn’t had a job, he probably didn’t have minutes for his phone. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I stared at the peak for perhaps thirty minutes, trying to apprehend what it would be like to be standing on that gale- swept vertex. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, the emergency was over and I went back in. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve tried to get some kind of medicine to help with it—the vuvv can apparently solve this kind of thing in five minutes—but we have minimum insurance coverage. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As the game progressed, Bobby had only twenty minutes remaining on his clock to make the required forty moves, and he’d so far completed just sixteen of them. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now, I would have traded my right hand to have it go on its merry way for another five minutes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After that, it took me only a few more minutes to find my way to the large open area at the maze’s center. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Instead of the usual one to two hours, speed chess often takes only ten minutes to complete; five minutes or less if the players want to challenge themselves even more. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You glue your feet to the floor for five whole minutes or you can just spin yourself down to the principal’s office,” she said. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now we had only minutes before the bombs were disarmed I caught Beckendorf s eyes again and asked a silent question, hoping he would understand How long? The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He dropped to the ground, as he had been doing every few minutes, to test the speed of their trackers. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Five minutes after I hang it up, Miss Celia’s phone rings. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Two minutes later the door hung sagging on the staple alone. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sang alongside them for a few minutes. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A pleasant smell, hot and pungent, which made my nostrils water and squirted the tears into my eyes, so that every few minutes I had to stop to wipe them. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after I wrestle with it for about five minutes, I know I'd be stupid not to tell him. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The five minutes went fast, and Colonel Batt signaled it was time for me to hang up and go to bed. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I thought about it for a few more minutes. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The rhythm was very tricky and it took the cricket a few minutes to catch on to it, but once he had it, he never lost the beat. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if Christina is brave enough to hang from the railing for five minutes, she may not be able to hold on. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They come into the room a few minutes later and stand next to the bunk bed. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“When you asked for my hand a few minutes ago, I was still too young to marry.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had been talking some ten minutes when Michel fancied he heard a bell. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

My threshold is five minutes, I tell myself. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She began to swim again, and after a few minutes, the water temperature dropped, causing her breath to catch. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

We had been loosening up for about ten minutes. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I eye the empty IV pole warily, knowing my first of many rounds of antibiotics over the next month is exactly an hour and nine minutes away. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Audrey was picking me up to go to Calypso Highs winter carnival in fifteen minutes. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She came back a few minutes later with something clutched in her palm. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, my friends stopped crying. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I stood in the narrow room for a few minutes before leaving to look for Aunty Ifeoma. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

About fifteen minutes later, the office door flies open, and Jay storms in. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“But only for a few minutes. You need to rest.” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

By everyone’s best estimates, she had been outside for approximately twenty minutes when the fire chief opened the door, and in the snow for perhaps two. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For ten minutes, we passed through fields in the moonlight. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

We live on the corner in a little brown house that’s about five blocks from the train station and forty-five minutes from the big city. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

First came the newsreels, each one a few minutes long, about current events around the world. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes later he was up and in the El Camino, driving to her house. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later the old man was back. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was quiet to the point of invisibility, and after a few minutes, I forgot she was there. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She’s supposed to have me rest, for ten minutes, with my feet on a pillow to improve the chances. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at me and said, “Paul, why don’t you wait out in the hallway for a few minutes? We’ll call you.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 20 minutes I scored two goals—my first two goals ever. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not go into particulars, such as that I did nothing but stand around for two hours, except for maybe fifteen minutes of helping Mr. Kellerman rearrange tie displays that did not need rearranging. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

They sat for several minutes in silence as Elizabeth tried to think of something to say or do to ease her father’s pain. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And there they sat for a precious few minutes, Papa and his two youngest children, while the rest of the family awoke and the sounds of the city began its crescendo all around them. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later we were in the car. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was excruciating to lie there and listen to people suffer—even if those same people had been ready to tear us limb from limb just minutes ago. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Carefully, he dried his face on his coat sleeve, then stood for two whole minutes staring at the shadow of a telephone pole on the alley pavement. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Alhaji and I gave the three other boys a few minutes to take their positions before we started crawling even closer to the village to initiate the attack. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

After several minutes he said, “Is one allowed to speak as a human being, or does the thing about being seen and not heard have to apply?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded for about five minutes, and then, I guessed, was shut off manually. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost twenty minutes had passed, and still no sign of Sticky. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It took them somewhat less than five minutes. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, I am driving into Jill’s apartment complex and I have the music turned up so we don’t have to talk. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

"I don't think anyone will even notice us. Let's just watch for a few minutes." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later he pulled up beside her again, this time with Day in the passenger seat. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He wanted Ms. Morales to fly to Chicago and back in the next five minutes and bring Mom home, just like that. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Katherine, oh the other hand, like the engineers around her, got into the habit of reading newspapers and magazines for the first few minutes of the day. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

My father came in a few minutes after supper, looking pale and worn. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They listened for ten minutes without moving, their heads down, their ears turned toward the radio. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“A massage will take me thirty grueling minutes. And you will be experiencing something new, a delight you have never encountered in all your long years. A similar opportunity may never arise again.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

My parents come in a few minutes later and sit down next to me at the table. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

We waited for what must have been 20 minutes but seemed forever. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

And teach me he did: In those fifty minutes, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

In a matter of minutes it got cold; then it got dark; then the rain started pouring down on the field, turning it into mud. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after ten minutes of sparking, we see a strange brown pigment slowly streaking the sides of the vessel. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’ve been mashed up against Simon's body in a booth for twenty minutes. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Five of their precious sixty minutes had already passed. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The Susan Marie rocked a full five minutes and while gradually she settled once again the body of her skipper settled, too, into his salmon net. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Within minutes they came up against a rail fence and what appeared in the fog to be an open space beyond. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We must have walked for about twenty minutes. We went down this hill, to the bottom of a gully where a stream was, when my dad suddenly said to me, ‘Coraline—run away. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“This ordeal was the most terrible torture,” she said, “as it prevented my sleeping for more than a few minutes at a time.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Morehouse? Jason and I are going out in the parking lot for a few minutes. We’re going for a run.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s fast and vengeful, and for a few minutes, I think my losing streak might continue. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Ms. Parker expects us to practice twenty minutes times five days each week and prove it with a signed-by-a-parent sheet marked with Xs for every day we play. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

While trying not to think, I spent twenty minutes on this fascinating question: if you could have one miracle from the Bible happen to you, what would it be? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It transpired after a confused five minutes that the man had heard Gatsby's name around his office in a connection which he either wouldn't reveal or didn't fully understand. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Five minutes passed with the whole class quiet as stones. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Unlike Moushumi, who is having her hair and make-up professionally styled and applied, Gogol is ready in a matter of minutes. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

After he corrected the exam, I removed another booklet from the pile and did that one in twelve minutes and 7 seconds. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes of conversation in which I established most easily my moral superiority over this degenerate, I found myself pondering once more the crises of our times. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less than five minutes later, Soraya and I watching from the doorway, he was snoring. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later he was heading east, and I made my way north over the green hills into Trebon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After I’d played for about ten minutes, it came to me: My aversion to Adam’s shows had nothing to do with music or groupies or envy. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barely ten minutes would go by before they were faced with another series of rapids, which meant another punishing portage. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

After finishing the round, which took about twenty minutes, he started again just in case some had fallen back asleep or had not heard him the first time. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke today had billowed up for just a few minutes, and then turned white and disappeared. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Within a couple of minutes the soldiers were formed up in the training ground ready to march. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been in a hobbit glade like three minutes ago. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Only ten minutes pass before Adam starts to snore. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We were ten minutes in, me holding a two-by-four’s end while he sawed perfect thirty-inch segments on a pair of carpenter’s horses, when a car stopped in the gravel shoulder of the road. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He mistakenly opened the valve instead of closing it, however, and ten minutes later all my oxygen was gone. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I can walk at least twenty minutes in one direction and make it back with plenty of time to spare. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just a few minutes earlier he had thought, nonchalant, that he could catch Sarai’s terrors like fireflies in a jar. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Panting with anxiety, I got it out of the earth after a good five minutes’ work. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Jack told him the number, and within minutes he was on his sleeping platform. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

We sat in the beating rain noise for a few minutes, then it abruptly stopped, like some annoying litde kid had stopped banging on a pan. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took several minutes, but eventually the beaker was empty, and Mrs. Coulter laid her daughter down again. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In five minutes, my carpetbag was packed with a few essentials: Tonic, my magic book, my dictionary, a shawl, and little else. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Their bread will still be here in a few minutes!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“She could do math in her head, multiplying and dividing numbers that would take most people five minutes to figure out with pencil and paper. She got that from her daddy.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It took them a few minutes to catch their breath and register the loss of the boat. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can I sit down? I’ve been standing here about fifteen minutes waiting for you to wake up.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

First I put my costume on backward, and then I spend ten minutes looking for my contact lenses before remembering I’m wearing them. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She told us about the amazements to be found at the Bronx Zoo, which was only ten minutes away from our new home. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It’s on the prestigious Main Line, just twenty-five minutes outside Philadelphia, on a rolling campus surrounded by overgrown foliage. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In a few minutes he closed his satchel and put the knitting needle in his pocket. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes of dicey, fatiguing crampon work brought me safely to the bottom of the incline, where I easily located my pack, and another ten minutes after that I was in camp myself. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You were zoned out for a good five minutes. Why you look so sad?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

For ten minutes or so, Mrs. Bradley rattled off statistics—local statistics—that surprised us all. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He would stop for a few minutes, but then give it a turn or two and my heart would slow down. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A fox passing through the wood on business of his own stopped several minutes and sniffed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A weakness, beginning inwardly, extending to the limbs, seized me, and I fell: I lay on the ground some minutes, pressing my face to the wet turf. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Two minutes later, Reid was back in my office. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we came back a few minutes later we found the shed had one of those doors that self-locks from the inside. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He let Harry keep a watch for the carriages, however, and spent the next few minutes craning his neck over the crowd to try and see what Krum and Hermione might be up to. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Within the first few minutes of the game, Geller insulted Bobby by offering him a draw after his seventh move. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

For the first five minutes, nobody says a word while we open milk cartons, apply heaping amounts of ketchup to our plates, and take our first bites. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“Not hungry?” my mom asks a few minutes later. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pull out the notebook that Starry gave me and hold it in my hands for a few minutes. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Five minutes have passed,” the captain said in the same tone. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

As Holt explained, a baby should be left to cry for fifteen to thirty minutes a day: “It is the baby’s exercise.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

This went on for ten minutes, until they came to the long hallway that ended at the Cliff, where beyond lay nothing but the lifeless sky. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t the only one to stand there hypnotized, for within a few minutes a whole circle of men had formed, their noses pressed against the window. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rose slowly and began to dress, ignoring me; he did not utter a word for five minutes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get home with twenty minutes to spare, but my feet feel like toeless blocks of ice. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“About two hundred yards down the street. Tyree captured this about five minutes ago.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later Hermione, who had become so tired of Ron’s recent unpleasant behavior that she had not come down to breakfast with them, paused on her way up the table. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“The good news is that you let me hold your hand for almost five minutes and you didn’t flinch once.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

We got only one break for fifteen minutes. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know why you’re worried, Oliver, Hufflepuff is a pushover. Last time we played them, Harry caught the Snitch in about five minutes, remember?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Sure thing, Beans. Give me a few minutes to butcher some meat for you.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later the voices of men were heard greeting the master of the house on his return and Theseus entered the courtyard. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wait a few minutes to let it pass, but it doesn't. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“This proposition is unorthodox, and against my better judgment, but the idea of a massage intrigues me, and I am rarely intrigued. However, thirty minutes is too short. Say...two hours.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He gave his orders quickly, and in a couple of minutes every animal was at his post. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

A second parachute popped open a few minutes later and coasted down, like the first, directly in toward the clearing of the landing strip. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The players were told that a fuse had blown and would take a few minutes to replace. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I've already called the press. They’ll be here in thirty minutes. They will want to know your story. Mr. Parker’s story. This city’s story.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

If she ran, she could make it to the park with five minutes to spare. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I decided I would wait for my father for five minutes. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Composed of heat-resistant plastic and chemically treated cork layers, and equipped with a desiccating unit to keep the air bone-dry, the insosuits could withstand the full glare of Mercury’s sun for twenty minutes. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

In minutes, Gregor' was hopelessly lost, and the mental picture of their path that he’d been making in his head resembled one of Boots’s squiggly drawings. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If they arrived to work even a few minutes late, as punishment they were locked in the basement for an hour and not allowed to go to their sewing machines. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

As the minutes ticked by, he could hear guard dogs sniffing at the car. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You kicked Mrs. Brill? Kind Mrs. Brill? I’m ashamed of you,” said his Mother a few minutes later when Mrs. Brill had told her the whole story. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The nurse stabbed at my veins for twenty minutes, then said they were too small. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And no matter if Aeneas’s storms had come to chill his arms or chill his dread or whatever, Turner was determined to finish in thirty minutes. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

In four minutes Frightful covered the air miles to her mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He came without fail every noontime, from his little basement restaurant up near the Polo Grounds; the joke was he never lasted more than two minutes... but he always left twenty dollars. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like she’d just told her life story, but, really, only a few minutes had gone by. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Six minutes later, I’m creeping across the top of the stock car on my hands and knees with Walter’s knife in my teeth. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

They were here in the room with the talk-doctor and me for the first few minutes. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Okay, Mummy, if you say so. Can I watch TV? Just for ten minutes?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He stays for perhaps another ten minutes, probably due to the trauma that has strapped itself to me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Barely two minutes later, the castle doors flew open yet again, and Snape came charging out of them, running toward the Willow. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He could barely get the words out, the next few minutes halting in presentation, and in that way, and substance, the high-school-essay nature melted away to core grief. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Liam disappeared around the back of the car, reappearing a few minutes later with a red gas can and a chewed up black hose in hand. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes you die and the discomfort of asphyxiation goes away. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

If they could just talk for two minutes. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

For astronomical purposes the Greeks adopted a sexagesimal number system and even divided hours into 60 minutes, and minutes into 60 seconds. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later he had gotten the TV set upstairs; his fingers groaning, he placed it on a coffee table in his living room. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I recall getting to a lecture a few minutes late one day and taking a seat next to Sarel Tighy, a classmate who later became a member of Parliament for the United Party. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every ten minutes or so her moaning would stop abruptly and she would vomit a foul black bile. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He wishes he could wait with her at South Station for her bus to Maine, but he has a commuter train to catch in ten minutes to take him to the suburbs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

No one else had entered or left, but when his aide knocked on the door a few minutes later, there had been no answer. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Well, it otherwise seems like there aren’t any cute guys in this whole city that I can stand for five minutes, so I’ll take what I can get.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In a few minutes I’ve updated him and he’s told me about rumors of uprisings in Districts 7 and 11 as well. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I look at the time; only a few minutes have passed. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did so for a few more minutes and then the helicopter rose, tilted, and drifted off. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The next day I am a boy named George, and I am only forty-five minutes away from Rhiannon. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“You’ll see. Within minutes the lights will all go back on.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Thirty minutes later than agreed he breezes in. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

After about fifteen minutes he finally gathered enough energy to get up and go to the kitchen and start cooking supper. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

We crouch behind an old car and take deep breaths for a few minutes. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The journey from rooftops to terrace was long for such small fluttering scraps as moths, and she had never been so impatient as in those minutes while they rose through the heights of the air. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When he got back onto the field, he yelled over, “Five minutes left to play, Coach.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All classes are to meet in the auditorium in ten minutes for an important assembly.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“We have to wait for fifteen minutes after your last drink before we test it,” I said, having downloaded instructions for the Breathalyzer off the Internet. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Especially in sticky situations like this, Maurice thought that a few minutes without science was the way to proceed. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

But after five minutes of pinching my skin and studying every angle in the reflection, I see the fattest person in the world. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He scared up rabbits, barked at terrapins, caught gnats and flies in his mouth, and every few minutes looked back to be sure I was still coming along behind. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

A couple of minutes later, Dad comes back out with two mugs of hot chocolate with lots of mini marshmallows on top, plus two spoons. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He would spend ten or fifteen minutes searching the room, squinting past the cages. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I just gotta get dressed, man. Give me like twenty minutes." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

The rest of him reappeared a few minutes later, removing a couple blankets, which he folded neatly and placed aside. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

"Make sure it's exactly five minutes, not a second more."Then she presses a hand to her ear and starts barking out more orders. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

And for those two minutes we just stared at each other, and I watched the blue in her eyes. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It took the Valiants less than three minutes to score their first goal. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I am only thirty minutes away from her. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

But after twenty minutes of tossing I got out of bed. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must only have been a few minutes later that men came and carried you and Muthu into an ambulance. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, another angry buzz runs down the line, this one tinged with surprise. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

For five minutes, the assassin and the servant argued about whether Powell would leave the medicine with Bell. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For fifteen minutes, Hitler spoke to the boys and girls, praising them. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The giants roared and screamed and cursed, and for many minutes the noise of battle rolled across the yellow plain. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you won’t stop anywhere between here and home? So if I call you after five minutes, you’ll be home by the phone?” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I'm going to manage this thing alone. Colonel Julyan will be here in exactly ten minutes.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

To radio listeners, it feels more like six minutes. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Every Wednesday, she timed a three-mile run, and I was dropping a couple of minutes with each one. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The restaurant was a big and barn-like structure, ten minutes up the road. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Nigro explained that there were ten stops on the circuit, and we had to complete all of them within two minutes and fifteen seconds. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The diapers were changed every five minutes whether they needed to be or not. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when experienced cell phone users were asked how long it would take novices to learn to use the phone, they guessed thirteen minutes; in fact, it took thirty-two. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They had been walking for over twenty minutes now, the woods thick and dark despite the daylight that must be approaching outside it. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Yet at any moment she was liable to be seized by one of those curious fits of sleep, which might last for a few minutes or for hours. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty minutes isn’t as long as you think. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He gave her a gummy grin so cute that she felt guilty for wishing him away a few minutes ago. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The temperature was dropping quickly, from searing hot to chilly within a matter of minutes, like it always did in the desert at dusk. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you have a few minutes? Gan we sit?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It took a few minutes for the class to settle down again. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She unpacked the kids and they fell asleep, on couches and floors, in minutes. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

His voice is so matter-of-fact now when it was welcoming and happy a few minutes before. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His arrival a few minutes later has the approximate impact on Volpe of a generous dose of Xanax. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She examined it and said, “Six minutes fourteen seconds.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, perhaps thinking he was over the worst of it, the same man was caught leaning slightly against the wall: a born target. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time I kicked at ’em they’d back off for a few minutes, then slowly start waddling under our feet again. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, he peeks under the partition. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, I’m in jeans and a hoodie. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Mother rested for several minutes, until she regained some color, then she told the story. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In a handful of silent minutes, the boat slipped into the cove and nestled its green prow in the sand at their bare feet. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He’s knocking on the front door 30 minutes later. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I waited ten or so minutes, just to be safe. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then Uncle spent about twenty minutes telling us about the time when he was young and he and a friend decided to practice target shooting with some cans. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

We waited for another ten or fifteen minutes with all the Tigros posse calling us suckers and stuff like that. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was at the head of the line, at 23,000 feet, fifteen minutes in front of guide Mike Groom; I decided to wait for him and talk things over. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And then it was 5 minutes and the tomato alarm went. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He hangs around the kitchen for a few more minutes, fixing himself the slowest peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich in recorded history and keeping one eye on Samantha at all times. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Within a few minutes, some nurses had come into the room with mops and buckets. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes late to the first meeting of a class. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I stood against the wall for several long minutes, overcome with anxiety and indecision. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

You could tell after two minutes that Ducky didn’t want to be out there. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Put the zero back on, and twenty minutes times five days equals one hundred minutes. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

They sat together in the coffee shop, which was always empty when they arrived and was crowded fifteen minutes later when they left, and had their coffee and doughnuts before they took the subway uptown. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I wait a couple of minutes before I tiptoe across the small living room and quietly shut the door behind me. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Mom reminds me we have to leave for Mango’s vet appointment in fifteen minutes. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Stepping under the shower’s perfect warm spray was already surreal enough without having to hear the click-click-click-beep of Thurmond’s automatic timer to keep my wash time under three minutes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He tried to go to sleep, but as the minutes ticked by, his mind got restless. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

It took them another twenty minutes to finish loading the truck. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The baleen only provided enough air for ten minutes, maybe twelve if they could keep calm, which he doubted they would. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I always manage to make a trip to the bathroom take five minutes. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

His EVA had lasted only twenty minutes or so, but he had enjoyed it so much he had hated to get back inside the spacecraft and close the hatch. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally decided to try for a few minutes of sleep. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Another fifteen minutes and what had seemed like a laugh­able dream that morning had suddenly become reality: It was just me and the other guy. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The fact is, his heart kept beating for nineteen minutes. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because I had four visitors and they had come a great distance, the authorities extended the visiting time from a half an hour to forty- five minutes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later she watched Jessie slowly close her eyes, lulled to sleep by the violin playing and the warm air wrapping around her from the radiator. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes ago, a news report had stopped her cold. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later, I’ve managed to get them out the door and to the corner of our road in the trailer park where the Head Start bus picks them up. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, he glances over his shoulder. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Nhamo’s neck began to hurt after a few minutes, but she gritted her teeth and endured it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would rip through an essay assignment in a matter of minutes, and Mom would be so proud. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least ten excruciating minutes passed with nothing changing. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Every few minutes Olly stops and pulls her into a hug. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She kept on doing this for several minutes, then put the cloth down and tapped May’s cheeks with her hands. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, Aibileen comes back with a tray holding a teapot and two cups that don’t match, paper napkins folded into triangles. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It cheapens everything, doesn’t it, if this man thinks we’re only giving him everything we have on us because we may not have any use for it ten minutes from now. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Within minutes, one thing was perfectly clear: Styx Malone had never been to a bonfire before in his life. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

At two minutes before four in the afternoon, his father sprang the trap. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I watched him out of my bedroom window a few minutes later as he walked quickly toward the mine, his head down and a bandanna to his face. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Two dollars times twelve minutes equals twenty-four dollars. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My daughters happen to have a lesson in ten minutes. Just how long are you going to be?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“I...ten minutes to...Trade Center and up to their offices. Oh, what floor are they on again? My car service...come...morning. We...to grab a cab.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He turned in his tracks, and in a few minutes he rejoined his friends. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I curse whoever invented adolescence and ask God to keep me upright and odor-free for another eight minutes. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

A coot hen on Mr. Bender’s side disturbs the water every few minutes, diving for something on the bottom. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I turn off the Xbox Infinity, where Cove has respawned, all limbs together as if he didn’t just explode minutes ago. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Outside, in the dark, I walk all the way up to Riverside, about ten minutes away, where they run a late bus for the nighttime water-plant workers. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, Jeremiah added another with a cannon shot from fifteen yards out. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

We spoke for a few minutes, and because I wasn’t really seriously considering a job, I was loose, sarcastic. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left after about fifteen minutes, but neither the garage door nor the front door opened again for an hour. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

But when Ma gets up a few minutes later, she takes one look at me and guesses what I’m thinking. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turns onto Roswell Road, and for the next five minutes, we drive in silence. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

It had taken him about fifteen minutes to do his homework that night. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

If only we had had a few minutes' warning, we would have found a way to hide Tsalig. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Just a few minutes later, Maeve opened the door of the little brown house. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He sleeps for five minutes straight before he starts speaking again. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

For several minutes, the wagon jostled and swayed as Baaz drove, and she listened as the city’s sounds grew faint. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Keeping to the shadows and taking his time, Sammy advanced to the strategic oak and remained concealed in the shadows for over five minutes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I need a few extra minutes away from Mom’s office. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Once I leave my room, it will be only minutes until I'm in front of the crowd, the cameras, all of Panem. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, Mother came into the office, where we were perched on the edges of her and Dad’s desks. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Herrod seems to have left camp within minutes of the main group, but he fell farther and farther behind as the ascent dragged on. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Your father said you are to stay fifteen minutes,” Kevin said, as he parked on the roadside, near Papa-Nnukwu’s thatch- enclosed compound. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Rawiya joined them a couple of minutes later, and in that time, they hadn’t budged at all. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Well, I suppose she’ll be ready for you to take her to the station in a few minutes.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She'd be fine for the twenty-five minutes it would take Mr. Taylor to get here. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It takes a few minutes for my heart to return to normal. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Three days, almost four. Jesper is driving us all crazy. I don’t think I’ve seen him sit still for more than two minutes together.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

What actually happened is this: the boy stayed home, had another fight with this father, stabbed him to death with the knife at ten minutes after twelve and fled from the house. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thirty minutes of that, you say, across my whole body?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It added minutes to the trip, but what else could he do? Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Women greedily clutched the babes on their laps while on the porch the shufflings and smiles, flirtings and pinching of a few minutes before were gone. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two minutes more and the room whipped out of town to the jet cars wildly circling an arena, bashing and backing up and bashing each other again. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood silently for what felt like ten minutes. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

For the next few minutes we watched as Selena twirled and dipped and stomped along to the music, always with a big smile on her face. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“I did seventeen years, two days, four hours and twenty minutes on a twenty-year sentence as a third striker,” he explained in an interview posted on the Ella Baker Center’s website. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They scored ten minutes into the half, and then again before the half, to lead 2-0. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Take a look at script pages one to three, and we’ll bring you back in about ten minutes.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It took what felt like an eternity, but was at most fifteen minutes, before he returned. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It took Mom several minutes to find a new shirt for me until she remembered all the clean clothes in my suitcase. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

We last like that for at least ten minutes, until she pretends she has an itch, and doesn’t return her hand to mine. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

For minutes they snapped away as I obliged them with several artful poses. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We had Elementary Sex for the first forty minutes,” she answered. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have been satisfied; he allowed us twenty minutes to eat our lunch. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra had planned to leave the way she’d come, banking on another few minutes before the Steward’s bell rang. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was only fifteen minutes, but it seemed like an eternity. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, they had a fire going. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

For several minutes she had been holding her cigarette ashes in her cupped left hand. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later I heard the unmistakable throaty honk of his ancient Crown Victoria in the parking lot. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Give the number of a pay phone where the friend can call in a few minutes.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She says to give her five more minutes. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Working feverishly, I made it, but since the paint required a few minutes to dry I picked up two finished buckets and started lugging them over to the loading platform. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be another twenty minutes before Mr. Wrigley returned from his truck, having rummaged in the toolbox in the trunk and finally, to his immense relief, found a second pair of tweezers. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Eager to find out all he could in the final minutes before the Dewey decimal doors reopened on the second floor, Kyle listened as Haley Daley detailed everything she had learned on Team Charles. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Luke watched Annie’s apartment for fifteen minutes after the door closed, making excuses to go to the window. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later Cara arrives with the others at her back. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Everything they had, rested on a few minutes in a library years ago. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When it was time to quit work at the end of the day, Papá kept on picking for another ten or fifteen minutes even though he did not receive pay for the extra time. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“For a few seconds. Suspends its respiration; yours, too, but humans can function without respiring—perspiring?—for a couple of minutes, but the vagus nerve of an andy—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I just came down. Rang the bell for water five minutes ago.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In just a few minutes, he had made a rudimentary pipe bomb. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For how long, Jane? For a few minutes, while you smooth your hair—which is somewhat dishevelled; and bathe your face—which looks feverish?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to let you know I don’t go anywhere without my mum’s magic seashell because if I do I will die, probably within minutes.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

And as soon as you looked like you were trying to sneak off for a secret talk, the whole place seemed to sense it within minutes, and you’d have no chance. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stayed out in the cool rain for twenty or thirty minutes and then went back inside. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both felt rather anxious to hear him speak again; and after a few minutes silence, he said, Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Several minutes passed between his undoing of one button and the next, his eyes closed all the while, his head still on her shoulder, as the bus hurtled down the empty, dark highway. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The terror on the stairs had been brief—a bare three minutes in time—and terror had served as an anesthetic. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could tell Gretchen anything in strict confidence, knowing that five minutes later she would recall nothing but the play of shadows on your face. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I think you need to settle down for a few minutes,” she said. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He catches the attention of the woman behind the bar again, who returns a few minutes later with a platter of cheese and fruit and slices of baguette. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Within minutes they had me bound—hands and feet—with a thick rope. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which is how, twenty minutes later, I’m in a dressing room wearing that taffeta shitshow of a gown. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

But he never completely lost his balance, not even a decade had taken that away, and in fifteen minutes he arrived at the Rio Grande. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went straight to bed, while Abbey spent like ten minutes gargling and brushing her teeth. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the few minutes of privacy we’ve had, with me walking him back to town, I gather that the rumblings of an uprising in 12 have been subdued by Thread’s crackdown. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gabriel was asleep within minutes and the voices in the room next door had nearly gone silent. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

There were more cars out than he expected, so navigating around those that decided to sit in the bike lane on Broadway added a couple of minutes to his time. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I lay face down in the snow for a few minutes. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

After about ten minutes, she blew her whistle and dismissed us. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After several minutes, she turned and looked ahead. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later, the bus stopped at the end of my street, a cul-de-sac. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Grown on either sugar alone, the bacterium begins to divide rapidly, doubling in number every twenty minutes or so. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, she knocked and came in. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

On stage a few minutes later, Leslie Groves handed Oppenheimer a scroll— a certificate of thanks from the government to Oppenheimer and the Los Alamos staff. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And sure enough, it did, not five minutes later. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Clancy stayed to speak with him for a good fifteen minutes, but I waited outside in the fresh air, watching the comings and goings of the camp. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Five minutes ago, this monster nearly ripped Luke’s arm off! So you’ve put Tara on it?” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We stayed among the crowd for only a few minutes before jumping back into the car for the drive to Cape Town. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, when they found out what had happened, the girls all remembered what Ethel had said at ten minutes to two. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, why did we go there?” groaned Hermione after a few minutes’ silence. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Answer these questions. You got fifteen minutes. And don’t be gettin’ any answers from your pet monkey!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

That the minutes and hours between our birth and death are more than frantic moments of chaos. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I thought for several minutes, but couldn’t think of anything. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I must’a stood there for at least fifteen minutes, one hand grabbing my ladder, the other hand gripping the top of Blaze Tower. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Stanton, who has witnessed the execution with other officials, lets the bodies dangle for twenty minutes before pronouncing that he is satisfied the condemned are dead. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I shall meet you in the Great Hall in twenty minutes with my House.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

After only a few minutes, though, Turner, in his high-pitched voice, offered Bobby a draw on the eighteenth move. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The limousine from the funeral parlor would be arriving in thirty-five minutes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For ten minutes they sat in their appointed places where they had been flung in the last moments before the furious exit. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rode for a while and then stopped for a few minutes. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The minutes stretched into what might as well have been years. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I stay for a few minutes, watching and waiting for him to come back, but he doesn’t. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Svetlana spent 3 hours and 58 minutes on the space walk. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

And today I have these vivid images of the ten, fifteen minutes we waited there. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty-six minutes earlier, I would have guessed the Pastor might nod and smile, lay a hand on my head, utter a few Praise the Lords and send me on my way. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I push myself off the couch several minutes later, then wander over to my desk and turn on my computer. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, the spectacle began with a thunderclap—the beating of a gavel and the call of the sergeant at arms. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We sat there for nearly twenty minutes before Frank was given a package to take downtown. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The Settlement was quiet like it was for only a few minutes every day afore dark. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“We have good news from our informants. We are moving out in five minutes to kill some rebels and take their supplies, which really belong to us,” the lieutenant would announce. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Three or four minutes later, he went back in. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Since were so busy, were limiting Internet usage to twenty minutes per person.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Kids care about fame, it turns out, for only a few minutes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I had a reason for doing this, besides just wanting to rest a few minutes. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I stare at him, still dazed from the past few minutes. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Only after thirty minutes had passed did Eunjoo allow her to wake the boys up. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I waited outside the office for a few minutes before being called in. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

We try and eat slowly, but we're both so hungry were done in a couple of minutes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We stood there silently for several minutes and then went home. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In a few minutes we’re all out of the house and in the car. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"Who can't? Sure I can. Certainly I can. They can teach you in about two minutes," I said. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, he would stand motionless outside the gates for several minutes on end, taking deep swallowing breaths as though he were trying to eat the smell itself. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

I have coughing attacks every five to fifteen minutes that last about five minutes each. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Thirty minutes before the hour I set out, my guidebook in my pocket, my breath fresh with Listerine. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

At some point I did scan the obits section of the Stokum Examiner, and I also took a couple minutes and googled the Net for chick suicides. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It takes forty-five minutes to get to school on a good day, and an hour on a slow one. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes or so later came the sound of another car and I opened the door to Herr Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador, by now no stranger to Darlington Hall. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was the cop that I'd passed on Forty-third a few minutes before. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Give me a few minutes to find them—they’re all boxed up I think. Oh, and Deacon Draper dropped off something for you two over there.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

"You know, five minutes' walk in that direction"—he pointed south—"brings you into the country. And tomorrow is our idle day." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He knew that Snape had come to fetch him for this, for the few minutes when he could needle and torment Harry without anyone else listening. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

At the end of twelve minutes Dev would open his eyes as if he’d been awake all along, smiling at her, full of a contentment she wished she felt herself. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Flight 93, with thirty-seven passengers and seven crew members on board, had left Newark forty minutes late because of runway congestion. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“Patients in traditional forms of psychotherapy while away their fifty minutes reliving childhood conflicts and learning to blame their unhappiness on how their parents treated them,” Pinker wrote. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“You say that you yourself heard Ratchett speak to the conductor at twenty minutes to one?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

After eight minutes, Smith pulled out a carrot and thrust it in the hand of the assistant. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, Styx’s eyes were bugging out. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He would lie down and “die” on command and wait, even if I went out of sight for more than ten minutes. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

"You can take him, right?" he asks a couple minutes later. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

In a few minutes a girl brought a stone pitcher, steaming, into the room. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

That left me with hardly enough time to make breakfast and get myself dressed before driving to morning gym practice forty-five minutes away. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It’ll only take thirty or forty minutes to fly back there. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The impulsivity of the idea had been so attractive to him twenty minutes prior, but now it seemed silly. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My little bedside clock ticked out the minutes one by one. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes before we closed, I picked up the cheapest laptop BJ’s offered, came to a hundred and eighty bucks cash with my employee discount. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

But you have to understand that Target is like five minutes away from my house. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“For how long? “Five or ten minutes?” came out more as a question than an answer. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Thus they wandered for some five minutes, standing still, listening, clanking, crouching, creeping, peering, walking on tiptoe, and occasionally making a chance swipe behind their hacks. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had gotten over the border, but only for minutes and those few minutes could easily have cost them their lives. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

We stood there quietly for several minutes before Papa came over. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“He said Charles came looking for him and said he had to run an errand. He promised to have the truck back in fifteen minutes.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Located minutes from downtown San Francisco, a baseball’s throw from where the San Francisco Giants play, it is a gleaming example of a new dedication to understanding the workings of the human brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Nah. The contractions aren’t that bad and are still like twenty minutes apart. I cleaned our entire house, from top to bottom, while I was in early labor with you.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for Julian, who always made a point of arriving a few minutes late, everyone was there. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then two, then four, and then finally, ten minutes. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Henry asks, about forty-five minutes past the homeless encampment. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

There are stretches amounting to many minutes when all three of our trainers wander off, leaving us to sit there in silence or take the opportunity to squirm. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could be ten minutes, could be an hour. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The chain reaction was going and would continue doubling in power every two minutes until he shut it down. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whoever picks up the most trash in the next fifteen minutes doesn’t have to do any work for the fifteen minutes after that.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

With ten minutes before showtime, I clicked on the channel’s most recent episode, titled: “My Superhero Mira and Her Cat.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

But he didn't walk away for a couple more minutes. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

This time he wasn’t in the shower five minutes when Petey burst in and said, “Mom needs your help!” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

We ate in silence for a few minutes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

We stand on the sidewalk for a few minutes before I say, “Where is she?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a good ten minutes or so we stand there with the flashlight burning the grave with light. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Several minutes passed in silence and Thomas realized his friend must be as fascinated as he was. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, I am ringing up a sale for four ties and the woman is thanking me for all my help. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I looked out the window a few minutes later, Markie had seemingly cloned himself and there were fifty, sixty, I don’t know, hundreds of him running around the yard. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when the so-called experts came, they didn’t stay long—I think they were there about forty-hve minutes, if that long. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hana doesn’t even look at me for a few minutes; then finally she says, “What?” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

They hammered on it lor ten more minutes; Ron even went and banged on one of the windows, but there was no response. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was seventy-five minutes away from his first female murder, and he wondered if he could get his fingers to her throat before even the start of a scream. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes after starting out, I finally haul myself onto the outcrop on the other side, completely spent, so wasted I can barely raise my arms. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

About five minutes passed, then she came in wrapped in a towel. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within five minutes she knew exactly where the bear’s armor was, and why it would be difficult to get it back. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

After the lights went out the special quality of my silence let him know that I was saying them, and he kept quiet for approximately three minutes. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later my mother came bopping down the street, trying her best to steer a shopping cart with a wobbly wheel. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

They passed a series of wooden doors that she’d seen a few minutes ago. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Still, after only a few minutes, he got up and ran back down the hill. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The white men said the ferry waren’t leaving for forty-five minutes. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Squatting, he lit a cigarette, and for about five minutes did not take his eyes off the field. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the final five minutes of humanities, she says, “Only one week until Socrates week! Are you all ready?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

"I say . . ." he began, and I heard my voice come quiet from my tensed throat as I noticed by the clock that I had been gone only twenty minutes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something had shifted in him from thirty minutes ago. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It whittles you down to lie up to fifty times in the space of the fifteen minutes or so it takes to do a “survey,” even when there’s a higher moral purpose to serve. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a full three minutes I delayed getting dressed. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

For a few wild minutes, she flailed at the door, pounding it with her fists, scratching at it until her fingernails were bloody. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I spin around, suddenly frantic, like the time I lost him for ten minutes at the grocery store. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood over her for about five minutes, apparently talking to her. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The bell had rung a few minutes earlier, but a straggler clipped us. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Five minutes, she thought, and if they didn’t come, she would go home. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“This morning. Like thirty minutes ago. I just got off the phone with her.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, she says, “I’m sorry my daddy’s mad at you.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

We ran for five minutes before Peewee stopped and fell to one side. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few throbbing minutes later, when he opened his eyes, he found himself squinting at a small, unopened package wrapped in green paper. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later, I've got my mouth full of English muffin and the cell phone rings. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We arrive at the house within five or ten minutes. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

His car was old and still had a tape deck, and he spent the first few minutes of the ride rewinding and fast-forwarding, trying to find a song. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They leave a few minutes later, grim-faced, pausing to talk to a small group of men. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I take my time moving to the shallow end in the hope that they’ll leave, but after a few minutes of stalling, they haven’t budged. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And so prison day number 264 passes slowly, the same as every other Tuesday, until five minutes past one o'clock. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was the only time he’d actually sit still for five minutes. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

At the door his mother’s voice, alarmed: “Palmer! I thought you were gone. School starts in ten minutes.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He bit his lower lip until the blood flowed, carrying the old man a hundred yards, then halting to rest for five minutes, then starting off again. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’d get decontaminated and sit across the room, far, far away from me and only for fifteen minutes. Thirty minutes at the most.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Baker shouted an ultimatum to the fugitives: “I want you to surrender. If you don’t, I will burn this barn down in fifteen minutes.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she could get away now, if only for a few minutes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two, three minutes, ten minutes, the plane roared and Brian listened but heard no one. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he didn’t do anything like that, and when I opened the door minutes later, he wasn’t there. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Pong had their schedules memorized, and he knew they wouldn’t get up for another forty minutes, when they changed shifts. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The whole ritual takes barely takes two minutes, and it gives her peace of mind. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

In a few minutes she sat him up and he let out a loud belch. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I wiped off my wristwatch and checked the time: twenty minutes to one. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

They had been inside the church for only a few minutes. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

For about two minutes, we all sat quiet. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes pass, the track rhythm sounding less waltz than clock, ticking out agonizing seconds of silence. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later they emerged to allow Bragg to give me his formal permission to work under his direction. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes Mrs. Gates walked to the microphone and tapped it. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later he fell asleep again, and I decided to try, at least. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Townshend hurried to the railroad depot, arriving within five minutes of the shooting. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

You are faced with the conundrum of how to fill the remaining minutes of the night. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

"He will be in a few minutes. What happened to him?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found Aech’s sword a minute later and added it to my inventory, but it took me another five minutes of searching before I found Art3mis’s magic sneakers, near the south end of the crater. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I did not know the game and I lost three balls in as many minutes; it seemed that my eyes could not trace the flight of the balls. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

So a few minutes of arc is a very small quantity to measure—especially without a telescope. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I spent another thirty minutes on my hair. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

This time it was a little easier to look at him than it was minutes before. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There I wait on hold for four minutes before someone picks up. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent the next fifteen minutes looking for Chas around the gas station, even walking both directions away from it along the road, but we couldn’t find any trace of him. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

After ten minutes her mom calls for Fizz to come up and say good-bye to her grandparents. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

"My sister and I will return in a few minutes," I announce. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Silent Tom’s tirade lasted a full five minutes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the church, where he stayed a few minutes. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mr. Aumack called the police again and in a few minutes the whole block was filled with squad cars. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bounced her on my hip to get the gas moving and it didn’t take two minutes fore Baby Girl stopped her crying, got to smiling up at me like she do. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We do speed drawings of her every three minutes. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“He takes one, talks his heart out for twenty minutes, and then falls asleep, like clockwork.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Several minutes after he presses it, enough to make him double-check the address on the scrap of paper in his jacket pocket, Maxine arrives. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The jello was gone in five minutes and the cigarette smoked. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Both afraid to disturb the other in the hope that we’ll be able to store up a few precious minutes of rest. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“All pond water should be boiled for five minutes to remove germs. It’s in the Scout handbook.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

After ten minutes, as the conversation was ending, the agent told K., “Let me say one last thing. My client is willing to sell this house for a lot less than you might think.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

After ten minutes or so of silence, Russ says, “If I get into the game tomorrow, would you mind if I used my extraterrestrial powers?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mall was in Annapolis, over the Bay Bridge, ninety minutes from Bailey’s Wharf. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

When you have a bowl full of blood, you take a stick and swirl it around in the blood for five to ten minutes to remove all of the clots. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took me fifteen minutes just to figure out how to spell it. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Well, Nicholas, you have ten minutes to speak to my daughter about this book that you’re reading, you understand? Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

That they had only two minutes to get to the crawl space under the house and that Miss Trotter wouldn’t go without Mama and Papa so JimmyTrotter had to get the photograph from the mantel. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Long dragged me in here and made me sit down a few minutes ago. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Every day I had counted the minutes until I could get back home to Wishbone. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, he got a place that’s about ten minutes away, or that’s what he said. I guess he was pretty eager to leave.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The body crashed down near her long American car, the planes receded and disappeared into the distance, and they all lay still for long minutes, until Harrison got up and said, “I am getting bag.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Justin and Kristina drive there together and are ten minutes late, as always, and to avoid being stuck with Jeff by myself, I wait in the alleyway behind the diner until I see them park. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Marigold’s practicing oboe”—Cady flicked an elbow toward an upstairs window, from which faint, stilted notes of music had been puttering for the last several minutes—“but I don’t know about Zane and Will.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Dogs started to bark and howl, kept it up for a few minutes—the racket died down. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes earlier I’d thought I was at a school where they were a majority. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But within minutes, he was out in the open, stumbling across upland fields and pastures that were sporadically lit by a half moon showing through clouds. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Even I could walk from one end of my old elementary school to the other in four minutes. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Five minutes after we left the motel, we were on the highway. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They did not breathe, or seemed not to, perhaps, for several minutes. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

My body shook, my sight became blurred, and I lost my hearing for several minutes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It’s too early—maybe thirty minutes until the faintest daylight shines. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The folks at Sears keep their files in such good order that I bet I could start from nothing and find whatever I needed in fifteen minutes or less. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gave them a couple of minutes to lock in, then stood near the brake and hollered, “Step in, gentlemen!” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every two minutes, the screen turns itself off and I push the button to make the picture come back. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I lay there for a few minutes, staring at the time readout on my entertainment console out of the corner of my eye. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Namba had perished on the South Col, just twenty minutes from shelter, assigned to a summit party, and on May 16 he reached the top without supplemental oxygen. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She was turning around, wondering what to do, when the woman said, over her shoulder, “There’s another flight to Boston in ninety minutes. Terminal 1.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Matt, you wait here a few minutes. When the coast is clear, come out wherever you went in,” said the bodyguard. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes later they ran the big current at the entrance to Tarawa lagoon. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m going to be dead within minutes in this little nothing battle in Vietnam that’s not going to change the course of the war, he thought. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

With only fifteen minutes and counting until Arletta Paisley’s new show, I didn’t have time for chitchat. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The aids virus survives for only a few minutes when exposed to air. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got my answer a few minutes later. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Five minutes old, and already the themes of my life— chance and sex—announced themselves. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

So far, about three minutes have passed since the broadcast began. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

After having gone back and forth with Aston for fifteen minutes, Tuttle finally waved his wrinkled hand at him like he was trying to shoo away a fly. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t spent ten minutes gluing his locker shut just to admit it to him. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The most dangerous moment for Mother had come minutes later, in the hospital, after the woman had been wheeled away. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At first Mother argued with him, but within minutes he’d convinced her. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I manage to sneak a few minutes at the computer to read Rhiannon’s message and send her one of my own, saying we’ll have to see how the day plays out. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It’s been more than five minutes since I ran out of the house. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

With two minutes to play, the Seagulls were all the way down to the Cypress Bay five-yard line. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But we’re only a few minutes late,” I said, recalling the discussion we had in Mrs. Taylor’s class about the film in which a boy argues with his father. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Helpers stop serving breakfast in fifteen minutes, girls!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, there were still eight minutes left on the quiz clock, so I decided to use the extra time to take a peek at the coding,” he says. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Starting with the front, I worked the left side, then the right, and then after about thirty-five minutes all I had left was the back, which was always the hardest part to do myself. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Other times, you have your legs on and operate the way the world intended, except when you stumble or your legs start aching fifteen minutes after you’ve put them on. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, the PA system crackled to life and Annemarie was called to the nurse’s office. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

After about ten minutes he came walking rapidly out of his office, his head down and his hands sunk in the pockets of his white smock. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his face in his hands and his handkerchief headgear drooping low over his brow, Zooey sat at Seymour’s old desk, inert, but not asleep, for a good twenty minutes. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The operator told us that we were almost out of time and we should deposit thirty-five cents for another three minutes. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I took it to the teachers’ room at noon and cursed creatively for twenty minutes. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

"I'll give you fifteen minutes," he said, then left the room. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I made it to my locker a few minutes early and took a second to look up the reporter Daisy had phished, Adam Bitterley. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“She keeps talking about a birthday feast. Which means we’ll be in the kitchen for hours, making something that will be eaten in ten minutes. Like homemade samosas or something.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, a chicken-sized blur went in, and I slammed the door shut. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed natural that we should wait for Puli, and sure enough he joined us a few minutes later. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within minutes, the road was swamped by thousands of marching people. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was, then, only a few minutes after my short encounter with Miss Kenton that I found myself walking down the corridor again on my return journey, this time bearing a tray. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

In any case, it would have been foolish to waste the few remaining minutes of daylight. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’m five minutes early, but Anna’s car is already here, and as soon as I step inside, I see her—dark hair in a neat ponytail, back to the door. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Only a few minutes later he had the lid off and split into long pieces. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Even Papa had given up and gone inside after twenty minutes. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Time to step in, pal. Five minutes ago.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This mission lasted 9 days, 5 hours, and 20 minutes. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We were eight minutes away from the scheduled time of the bomb release when the city came into view,” recalled Paul Tibbets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Coop will be here in less than thirty minutes!” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I didn’t say anything more to R.C., and after a few minutes, he leaned his head against the door and fell asleep. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He almost gave my grandfather a stroke, but in a few minutes he realized that the two of them had a common goal: to rescue me. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

During lunch period, I got called to the principal’s office, where I sat for twenty minutes and worried about the unknown emergency. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I'd been asleep for just about thirty minutes when my alarm clock went off at 6:32. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Wheeze, what on earth are you doing? You’ve been to the front door five times in the last five minutes.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the sound of it, I pray, Dear God, give me the strength to get through the next ten minutes without dissolving into a pool of lustful preteen sweat. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some minutes later I was overwhelmed by a disturbingly familiar feeling of suffocation, and I realized that my oxygen had once again run out. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

As though he wished he could take back the last five minutes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Elinor began snoring after only a few minutes, but hard as Meggie tried she couldn’t get to sleep, so she got up quietly and slipped outside. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

We were still telling those secrets when we heard Irene’s parents in the kitchen, maybe ten minutes after the phone rang. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I bet he’s been dumped within the past few minutes,” Kevin said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

We're still sitting there twenty minutes later when her mom comes in. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It only took me fifteen minutes to put a controller on a reserve power line, then another hour to go outside and run the line to where the battery used to be. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they had reached the Wabash Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, they were capable of setting off a powerful charge every five minutes. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they entered their building, they were coughing so hard they had to sit for a few minutes before they could move. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Forty minutes go by before anyone acknowledges my presence with more than a harried nod. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a silence of several minutes, he came towards her in an agitated manner, and thus began: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

It had taken less than two minutes for Archer to knock one boy unconscious and pin the other to the ground. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

After about twenty minutes, a small stone cottage next to a gate swam into view. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He sees me too, but this time he doesn't seem in a hurry to get away, even though there's only five minutes until the bell rings. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was seventeen minutes of Barack’s deft and easy way with words, seventeen minutes of his deep, dazzling optimism on display. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As Jack watched, he realized that within minutes of receiving a shot, the man would jerk spasmodically—and then die. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He would do this every few minutes, I felt a senseless stupid irritation come over me, and I did not know how to prevent myself from turning round and screaming to him to stop. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I rest his head on my lap and we let him soak about ten minutes with everything immersed from the neck down. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We drove for about forty-five minutes, with Dad discussing different routes with Mom and the driver. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She waited in the yard, her face pale, for five minutes. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they left home, she tried to avoid the thought that within ten minutes she’d be at the spot where Jim had died. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It took nearly five minutes before we found seats. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if it’s ten minutes or an hour later. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

If your hand is taken from you you don't know, for a few minutes, that your hand is gone. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, I glanced at the rearview mirror. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

"He showed up about twenty minutes ago. Said he decided to come back himself." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we should step outside. Got a few minutes?” he asked. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I finally made it to the Watch Commander’s Office and waited twenty minutes for my turn with the lieutenant. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one sense those fourteen minutes tell the story of the next fifty years. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Clive Pike tried to get me back, and it went on like that, swerving, eddying, and ramming for five minutes of heaven. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

At twenty minutes to nine we were not half through dinner. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Less than ten minutes until Tad wanted him to be upstairs. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes of running, a new barrack. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later the two of us were on our way, only this time my hands weren’t tied and she wasn’t poking a knife in my spine. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He hung that way for several minutes, choking and heaving and gasping for air, fighting to clear the picture of die pilot from his mind. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry stood patiently, gazing down at the floor; gradually his eyes began to wander, and after about five minutes he made an exasperated noise and looked up. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

That is the blessing of what I have to go through—I am able to fall asleep in minutes. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He remained that way for a few minutes, until something caught his attention. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes later we were making our way through the iron labyrinth of Pretoria Local, with its endless series of clanging metal doors echoing in our ears. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m still sitting there twenty minutes later, the house as closed up and silent as when I arrived, and finally I head home. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Everything is five minutes from the other thing here. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I picked up my cane and told her that if Transito Soto did not appear in person within ten minutes, I would break all the windows and everything else inside that Pandora’s box. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I wash my hands for a minimum of 2 minutes in the hottest water available. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Within a few minutes, Bobby donned a wide-brimmed brown leather visor, the rationale for which was so that his opponent couldn’t see what he was looking at. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“One stop in Buxton in five minutes, then another forty-five minutes to Windsor.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

After watching him for about five minutes, Gramps asked if he could try it. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Every few minutes, I crawled under the cherry tree for shade and another cool drink of water. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spit it out because it’s what I’m feeling in this moment and was feeling the many moments, minutes, and hours before. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Within minutes, local agents in Chicago and New York were dispatched and on their way. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The bulletin board was surrounded, and it took Alex a couple of minutes before he could see everything that had been posted. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She watched a few minutes more, and when the men didn’t return, she drew in a long inhale and exhaled slowly. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Turn off TV,” she called from the kitchen five minutes later. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shrugged, and minutes later she handed me a cold can of soda. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I had to spend a good thirty minutes convincing her that I hadn’t turned into a racist, and when the conversation ended, I hung up, thoroughly demoralized. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Demure and reserved, the forty-seven-year-old Namba was forty minutes away from becoming the oldest woman to climb Everest and the second Japanese woman to reach the highest point on each continent, the so-called Seven Summits. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe trying to throw my brain at his for the last twenty minutes had made me loopy. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I spend the next forty-five minutes standing guard outside Barbara’s dressing tent as she entertains gentleman callers. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, Pastor Tom marched a groggy, squinting Henry out onto the porch. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes after I emerged from the door in the cargo hold and stepped onto a large floating piece of wood, I watched the giant ship sink in front of my eyes. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I look on as Zero waits another few minutes before casting a new bet. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For once, I went a few minutes without looking at the clock, so I was surprised by the bell ringing, and took longer than everyone else to get my backpack packed. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

And in his brain was born sharp appetite for the future—a pleased warm anticipation, as though the coming minutes and weeks must bring delight. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes later the roles were reversed, and I was holding the massive arm of one of the Antonelli twins as he sputtered and teared. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could barely find first base when the movie started, but a hundred minutes later, they were sliding onto home plate like World Series winners. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It might have been ten minutes, but it was probably more like two or three. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He had given it up for five minutes of mittens. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Their cries continued for many minutes, then all was quiet again. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The average stabled horse spends just five minutes at a time lying down to sleep, almost always at night. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I might need another few minutes to get hyped,” I say. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

After fifteen minutes the Earth Men began walking in and out the kitchen door, with nothing to do. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon I was five minutes early and right away I knew that something was different. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It was fifteen minutes before we saw it again, flying serenely and very high. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As for the third message, it referred to a very simple error which could be set right in a couple of minutes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In a few minutes they’d reached the crest, only to find that beyond it lay another one even higher, and beyond that several more, whose tops were lost in the swirling darkness. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

We would know about it only after eight minutes, the time it takes light to reach us from the sun. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other cases, he would say, “It will be a few minutes before they’re ready for you, but you might as well head over now.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, the voices of my dogs were silent for a few minutes. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, only fifteen minutes after she’d left the ground, she was standing on the first branch and planning her route to the next. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh no, et tu, Brute? You were my last hope. With By and Joey and your mother popping up every few minutes asking ‘Are we there yet?’ it’s been like a stuck record.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been going for ten minutes when he saw Mace’s head on the grass by a pile of dirt. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Your show ended two minutes ago,” Calista told me, getting up to grab the remote. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Wilson would be there in a few minutes and she had to know what was going on. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes’ silence, he got up, shook hands with me, and blessed me, and said good-bye, and hobbled off. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He was twenty minutes from his tent, and began to make his way there. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

You need this 142 minutes and 13 seconds in your life. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

We “gossiped” for a couple minutes, trying to hold back any inappropriate laughter—the kind that would’ve given us away. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

When he finally returned it to me, he announced that the visitation time had been cut to five minutes, on orders from the sheriff himself. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

But when another fifteen minutes roll by, I decide to go inside and look for her. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It took us a few minutes to rise from under the bushes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And if I’m in a town somewhere with several minutes to kill, I’ll enjoy myself wandering about looking in the shop windows. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I sure do. She was here only fifteen minutes ago, fat and beautiful.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’ll take em forty-five minutes just to find the house,” I say. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Was it uncool to get there ten minutes before my secret admirer? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And five minutes after that, they had opened a window in the pantry next to the kitchen two floors below and climbed out into the alley. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t two minutes later we hear footsteps trompin’ up our stairs and then a knock at our door—“Delivery for Biddy and Quincy”— and then footsteps back down the stair. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She watched a few minutes more, and when the men didn’t return, she drew in a long inhale and exhaled slowly. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Sis! I’ve been out here forty minutes and I’m half stewed.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We drove on in silence for another few minutes. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

They were leaving, because the attendant was telling them that the museum would close in ten minutes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, she slept ten minutes longer and returned to her original timing. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did a quick glance around the room, then added, “Ten, fifteen minutes?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A typical whale song lasts for perhaps fifteen minutes; the longest, about an hour. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took two or three rights, whatever lefts came along—and in a few minutes I was completely lost. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I know that a few minutes ago, when we saw Mirjam in the photographs and Ollie told me that nothing had changed—he was wrong. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And finally, what felt like a full couple of minutes later, the pteranodon’s torso and giant wings. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Two minutes later, Spoon said, “It’s a quote from Richard Jefferies, a nineteenth-century English nature writer noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Within minutes of his prediction, we see this very thing happen on-screen. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I blush, shaking my head as I send a quick text to him, telling him to meet me in the atrium in ten minutes. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Performers played for five minutes or two minutes or ten minutes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Even so, within ten minutes, it was obvious that the rapids ahead were impassable. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I held out for about three minutes before I retrieved the phone and dialled into voice mail. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many minutes pass before the back bell rings. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Within five minutes, she had cleared her plate and departed. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

After ten noisy, rocky minutes, the trees thinned, and Harry could again see patches of sky. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The rules are simple, you get to catch your breath every few minutes, and you can work on your tan. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes earlier, she had wandered off to smoke her last cigarette before showtime. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later he begins to snore. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later his wife walked out of the building with Hall’s folder in her purse. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were told to sit in the room together for two minutes. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The onslaught of selfies is really important; if I go two minutes on Instagram without seeing your face, I’d probably forget what you look like.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Then leave us alone for a few minutes. Your boy’s a good kid. We know that. We’re only trying to help.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For almost five minutes I lay still in the grass, trembling. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

‘Put the stirrups down a couple of notches. Now, hand me my gloves. I’ll be back in ten minutes.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, I ran across the meadow in the direction I had seen Granddaddy set off. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I checked my watch: ten minutes after one. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

There’s no clock in the room, so I can’t count down the minutes until the interrogation. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

About three minutes had passed since Crawley had left the office and he had said he would be back in five. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Uncle Antonio, who had arrived earlier, stayed to speak to Mamá, and in a few minutes the young priest to whom Salvador had been dispatched came in. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

After ten minutes of catching up, a few researcher trainees stop by our table. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I told you to meet me there in fifteen minutes. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Four minutes late,” was all his comment, as she climbed in beside him. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes he dropped the gun and began to adjust the sails. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Right. If he could play the quiet game for twenty minutes, I would take him to McDonald’s.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

What she doesn’t know is that a water main burst just a few minutes ago next to her building. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Even Apollo for a few minutes was hard put to it to overtake her; still, of course, he soon gained. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always treasured the thought of those minutes. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then they hug for like fifteen minutes. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, the door of the train station was hurriedly pushed open onto the platform as a group of six people, winded and obviously running late, surged out. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

After some minutes, he closed the book and put it aside. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later Charles Howard stormed into the racing secretary’s office at Santa Anita and announced that Seabiscuit would not run on Christmas. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, I’m perched on a drum stool in Evas bedroom while Abby tucks into the desk chair, arms wrapped around her knees. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Within just a few minutes the guards emerged from the crowd, gliding on their forebears, carrying something covered in cloth between them on a little stretcher. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Mr. Weiss wouldn’t care if I snuck into study hall a few minutes late. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Oh Jesus Christ Almighty, he wailed silently, terrified of the old-fashioned remedy she was sure to turn up with, and he was certain to drink, in about ten minutes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I promise I’ll only be a few minutes late,” she said. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I’ve been knocking for almost two minutes with no answer, so I open the door. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When the frantic rocking was over, he rolled off her and was asleep in minutes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The sea became rougher, and every few minutes a wave splashed into the boat. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Bay Minette, where the hearing took place, is about thirty minutes from the beautiful beaches on the Gulf of Mexico. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes later, Grace was driving to the mall, all the windows down so she could feel fresh air again. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

For the next few minutes, Miss Emily went on reminiscing about different events from those days, mentioning a lot of people whose names meant nothing to us. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and his partner spent ten minutes there before returning to Adnan’s window. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

After a little while, what little awkwardness as existed during the initial minutes of our meeting had dissipated completely, and our conversation took a more personal turn. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Margalo put it under her tongue, and she and Stuart sat very still for three minutes. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the merchant decided to delay his lunch for a few minutes until the boy moved on. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit on the curb for fifteen minutes—challenging myself to keep still for that long. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Sneak around to the boulders behind the building? We still have a few minutes before class.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

After ten minutes or so, Madam Pomfrey came over to tell the team to leave him in peace. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I suddenly understand how my big sister, Mary, could have met a guy and married him five minutes later. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Between our apartment building and the park entrance are two more buildings, so we stand in front of them for ten minutes to talk to the residents coming in and out. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Less than ten minutes later, he picks me up in his dad’s Benz. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“I have fifty-seven minutes left on this stupid calling card and I have so much to tell you. Sit some­where.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But I boiled it five minutes more than usual.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

In ten minutes it was gone from view. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, after I don’t know how many minutes, the line of actors onstage stepped back and the curtain closed in front of them. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

After a few more minutes, the dark splotches ahead of us came into focus. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I got to the gym a few minutes before the procession. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“We’re supposed to meet in the lobby in ten minutes for team dinner.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The world record is twenty-two minutes and twenty-two seconds, and this belongs to a German competitive breath holder. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Law, Miss Hilly gone be here in five minutes. She better put that fire out fast.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The radio announcer spent fourteen of the fifteen minutes before the race talking about Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bike ride to ABC usually took around five minutes, but this time it took the boys almost twenty because of Wes’s slow pace. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I had hoped that the group might stay together forever, but within ten minutes it was all over, finished, with each of us vowing to perform only our own work. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes it was dancing so quickly that it had to spit out the aunt. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

We agree we can leave in five minutes after some alone time. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

And now, on this first morning of her new life, she lay in bed a few minutes to relish the quiet of the empty attic. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

They are one of her specialties, something her guests have come to expect, handed to them on small plates within minutes of their arrival. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She timed the process carefully, washing off the relaxer in exactly twenty minutes, but her hair remained kinky, its denseness unchanged. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Once he got up and went back into the baggage room and stayed away for several minutes. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

When I showed up at the church a few minutes early on a cold and rainy Sunday evening, he was waiting for me. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

With me living forty-five minutes away, Tumblr is supposed to be sacred ground where our friendship is cemented. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Daddy’s a sweetheart; he may get mad at me, but it never lasts longer than five minutes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But after two days’ testimony, the new jury—again entirely white—took only thirty-four minutes to restore Reeves’s death sentence. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Uncle Willie looked at me with an impatience I hadn’t seen in his face even when he took thirty minutes to loop the laces over his high-topped shoes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re the same person you were five minutes ago and four months ago and eighteen years ago! This doesn’t change anything about you.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Nick’s report went on smoothly for twelve minutes. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nicholson sat motionless for some few minutes after he left, his hands on the armrests of the chair, his unlighted cigarette still between the fingers of his left hand. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

This goes on a good fifteen minutes, before Morrie finally breaks in with a whisper. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At ten minutes after twelve on the night of the killing he heard loud noises in the apartment upstairs. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was thirty minutes, after he had waited so long for this moment? Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later Barker’s team arrived, dripping with sweat. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I thought only a few minutes had passed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, she called me and Karl back in. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“That way, it will happen just during the first minutes of your actual seventeenth birthday.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The last ten minutes had been the best ten minutes of my life. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood there for what seemed like several minutes and finally, in mild exasperation, I started to move away. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty minutes later we were on the Jefferson road, and it could of been Christmas, we were so excited. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Seven minutes later, their single engine had pushed them into a good orbit, below and behind me, and they then began a carefully calculated three-hour chase to close the gap. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman in the boat announced the time every thirty minutes. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

That would be about right—me and May the only two who couldn’t lie peaceful on the bed for five minutes. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we followed her for like twenty minutes, thinking this was hilarious...until she went into a cutlery store, and we watched her purchase a nice new butcher knife. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

"Roger, Flight. . . message sent. Minimum reply time three minutes, four seconds." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped through a side door and wandered through the hospital for about fifteen minutes until a nurse intercepted him. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been talking with Mayor Schmoke for ten minutes when he leaned toward me and asked the dreaded question: “So, Wes, what do you plan on doing after you finish school?” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

After I got off the train yesterday, I hung around outside Ashbury station for a full fifteen or twenty minutes. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

On an average night, one need engage in only a few minutes of channel surfing during prime-time hours to stumble across images of gangsta culture on television. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Brown smiled the same smile he had been used to use when he docked Tristran a morning's wages for five minutes' lateness. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was by now all too familiar with false reports and knew that had anything happened to Seabiscuit, Smith would have been on the phone to him in minutes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After twenty minutes of him relating to me his life story, I finally tell him, “I ain’t interested in anything you have to say unless it’s how to get out of here.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get a move on,” G’ma says as if the previous fifteen minutes never happened. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes she returned, her sopping hair plastered to her face. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It had been at least three minutes since I made that joke, and he was still holding on to it. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

"One must come first. Art Corin's elder by full twenty minutes. And his better too, let's hope, though that's no great mastery." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

In less than two minutes, the rescue helicopter was airborne toward the area where Bull Meecham had disappeared from the screen. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also wouldn’t be able to hear the answer because he’s been screaming at the top of his lungs for two minutes straight. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She even started asking me what I liked for sandwiches and drinks, and at noon, she’d sit down with me to chitchat for a few minutes while I ate. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I talked to the reporter, whose name was Mr. Newman, for about twenty minutes, and was candid about both prison and the Rivonia Trial. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She planned to transfer, probably to the Downstate Correctional Facility, about forty-five minutes north, as soon as a good post opened up for her. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the minutes ticked off, little girls clasped their daddies’ necks, lovers hugged as though the embrace had to last through all eternity, and an old woman got teary-eyed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And to her oft-repeated question, “Are we almost there?” the welcome answer came at last: “Only a few more minutes now.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

What would have been a twenty-minute walk took just a few minutes in the car. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

It took about ten minutes of this to get him to the house, up the porch steps, and into Joseph and David’s room, which fortunately is on the ground floor next to the living room. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was twenty minutes before two o’clock in the morning, enough time left to catch plenty of fish—the coffee would keep him awake long enough to fill his hold with salmon. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I let them cool for a few minutes, then started tasting them one recipe at a time. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He had closed his eyes for a few minutes at a time, but had not found sleep. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Each time Jesse would jump, and it would take another couple of minutes to relax again. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

It only took me about fifteen minutes to figure out the “rules” of the game and to sort out how the scoring system worked. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, I tapped the Twitter icon on the phone and tweeted out to the public that I was officially turning pro. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I could’ve used a few extra minutes to work on my own poem. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We are go for launch and will proceed on schedule. We are T minus four minutes, ten seconds to launch . . . mark." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a thrill, Mom allowing us out of the house for more than a sleepover, allowing us farther than twenty minutes outside Jankburg. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

In a few minutes Papi and Dad will call me down to eat breakfast and open presents, and I’m not sure if Coop will be there. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we’d read through the newspaper together, but only the good things like the launching of an American satellite into orbit that circled the earth in 116 minutes. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time, it took Jake less than five minutes to complete the complex series of equations and find his vectors. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

"You have a couple minutes? I have some things to show you." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The streetcars, packed a few minutes before, were almost empty. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

But they would only have a few minutes. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

If he climbed up onto the roof, he could see it slink behind Marin and the Golden Gate Bridge in the next few minutes, but he had somewhere to be. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It takes a few minutes for my mind to process the rest of his words. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most often these dialogues took only a few minutes, but by the end of September there had already been two occasions when they had lasted more than three quarters of an hour. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Of course, I immediately stepped down, because I didn’t want to deny anyone their ten minutes of feasting on the world. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At fifty-nine minutes, thirty-two seconds, I stopped, pulled my lighter hunt bag and the rifle off my back, and settled into the nook made by a felled tree. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I had never considered what she was doing those last minutes of her life, why she was in the closet, what they had fought about. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And within ten minutes of hitting the highway, I’m down for the count. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Only for a few minutes now and then does he seem to be rational and to recognize me or even see or hear me. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

After two minutes he dropped his hand as you would drop a rag. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

By now, it seemed, they'd run through the best storytellers and were left with people who took five minutes deciding whether they visited Asheville, North Carolina, in June or July of 1961. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

It took him a few minutes to adjust to the darkness, and as his eyes fixed on the red glow of the corners of his cage, he realized just where he was. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Local routes also ran every hour to Mutare s city center, thirty minutes away. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Give her a few more minutes and she’ll have worked herself into a good humor again. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In less than fifteen minutes they came near to the river. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later the church bell began to toll the alarm. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man called the police and in minutes the street was full of police cars and emergency vehicles. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is safe to say that in the forty minutes that passed between the passenger’s stroke and the landing in Helsinki, there were no more than a handful of seconds of silence in the cockpit. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He tackled an enormous slab of roast prime rib, which he consumed in a matter of minutes. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to have forgotten that we were in a Dodge Caravan and not a BMW, because it went from zero to sixty in what felt like thirty minutes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Celia was prepared to beat you to a bloody pulp a few minutes ago,” he pointed out. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

An old shoe was lying on the asphalt in front of the loading dock, where the ambulance had been only minutes before. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“What? That kids would talk about you for being different? Wait like 5 minutes and they’ll talk about someone else.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes I stopped and listened. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was a good twenty minutes to the pickup zone if we were fast. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faro stayed with me for about ten minutes and then, after sniffing around inside the cave, he trotted off down the hill, back to the house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I called Gatsby's house a few minutes later, but the line was busy. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Forty-five minutes or so after I start working, Chloe comes home. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I will do five minutes of calisthenics daily. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I turn my back for five minutes and everybody lets my black mollies die off. I should’ve taken them to college with me. I knew that.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I had a strong will and tough leg muscles, but in less than five minutes I needed my fingertips to steady myself. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But if I’d stayed just a few more minutes, I don’t know if I could have left. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“You get in there and answer that question for yourself, young man. I called you twenty minutes ago. Is our house about to burst into flames while we’re standing out here?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Linksfield was a long walk from my house, nearly forty minutes, but still doable. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But with me, after ten minutes, her buoyant eyes subsided, and she told me the truth about how she felt. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

What she found most difficult was talking about a personal experience for five minutes. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

The realization of what would happen next settled gradually over Harry in the long minutes, like softly falling snow. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“You still owe me twenty minutes,” Coach said, checking his watch. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He squirmed on his mat, wishing uselessly that Headmaster hadn’t selected him, picturing the cub chased by a hungry crocodile, counting the minutes until the sun would finally rise. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

It took him ten minutes to gouge out a hole that he judged to be right. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Let her know that I’m OK I’ll call again in a few minutes. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Sala? She left a few minutes ago, didn’t you see? It’s after curfew. She was afraid of getting into trouble.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, even just for three minutes, even when it was my turn to be with Lynnie, I had to step outside. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It gave me a feeling of power to know I was circling the earth once each ninety minutes. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a few minutes he reached the end of his journey, deposited his coin, and drove through. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed only a few minutes later that he passed a large fistful of sugar packets to another friend of his, instead of the prescribed six. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Violet and Klaus spent several minutes opening and shutting Count Olaf’s kitchen cupboards, but there weren’t any cookbooks to be found. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The whole journey couldn’t have taken more than a few minutes. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes spent exchanging earnest banalities, we went our separate ways. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, after about fifteen minutes, Harry heard the deafening roar that could mean only one thing: Cedric had gotten past his dragon and captured the golden egg. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Thirty minutes after leaving the dock, the boat was over the deepest part of the lake. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within minutes of receiving word that the Moore brothers were back in the house, police had cordoned off the entire block. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Within ten minutes they had met a French major named Lucy, a journalism student named Thomas, and two sorority girls with undeclared majors. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

After War Admiral, fuming and frustrated, held up the start for eight minutes, victory in the Kentucky Derby came easily to him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, Qendrim was chasing after a free ball in the Blue Springs goal box when the goalie took him out at the knees. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Within a few minutes, they had all helped clear the table, Rebecca urging them not to stay and try to help with the dishes. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Of course these last few minutes were the vital ones, and the most dangerous. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Well, I certainly would leave a regular sister for five minutes. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four of us took the Buick south on the expressway, following the road out of Chicago, exiting about forty minutes later near a sterile-looking shopping plaza. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“No! Seconds—minutes, maybe. Gum Baby told you she move like the wind.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“No, not now, I thank you. I could not stay two minutes. I must get on to Kingston as fast as I can.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Three minutes later, the bookmobile squealed to a stop outside Liberty Park, which was actually more of a playground with trees and picnic tables. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Ang Dawa and I talked for a few minutes, and then we made our decision. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I would take fifteen minutes before I began my warm-up to focus on my breathing and my thoughts. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

There were so many other things going on so quickly in those three minutes that we couldn’t find the pattern. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I went back to my room and fell soundly asleep for twenty minutes, and dreamed Julie was teaching me to foxtrot in the kitchen at Craig Castle. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

But five minutes later he broke a rule, and of course he couldn’t help it because they said his brother who worked in the meat market had brought Bones up on raw meat. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were ten minutes left in the period when I raised my hand. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

And since the new house was forty-five minutes farther away from Bannon’s than our old one, getting to and from gymnastics practice was going to be more complicated. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Standard Soviet tradecraft was to wait no more than five minutes at a pub- lic meeting spot—any longer could attract attention. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sobbed for a few minutes before I wiped my face on his covers. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The child had been alive only minutes but was already considered a criminal by the Soviets. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

We sit for five minutes before the conductor decides communication would be good. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Starting now, the wizards of the Order of the Clean Hand are going to send out the trigger signal every five minutes. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I only have ten minutes until visiting hours are over when I arrive at Nita’s room. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She thought she saw him ten minutes later, but it was only a migrating sparrow. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s why yesterday, I stood outside my front door for ten minutes, scared to go inside. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

So I spend five more minutes sitting in my parked car staring at my email again on my phone. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He had his head down on the table when Officers Anwawn Jones and Jason Anderson came in, two hours and nineteen minutes after he’d first been placed in the room. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Within minutes, they were surrounded by dozens of armed police, who arrested all of them, packed them into vans, and drove them to Marshall Square police station. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t begrudge me a few minutes of quiet, but the table-setting came first. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Couldn’t I just be out of it for a few hours, a few minutes? Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gods arrived a few minutes later in their full war regalia, thundering into the throne room and expecting a battle. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I’m there for about ten minutes before the door opens and a thousand Charlies come in. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

After ten minutes of polite assistance Ishmael wondered aloud if his DeSoto wasn’t the answer and persisted in this vein for five minutes more before Hisao yielded to it as an unavoidable evil. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Finn, why don’t you go pet Rocket and keep him company for a few minutes?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The tape runs for two more minutes, which feels endless to watch. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later Matt proudly comes back into the room holding aloft the envelope. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Staring at water for minutes on end had put her in mind of the lake. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Its self-winding clock told the time in days, hours, minutes, and seconds, from a face seven feet in diameter. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A couple of minutes later, there’d be a knock on the door and I’d straighten my shirt and let her in. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Richard watched Olanna as well, and each time he glanced at her he felt renewed, as if she had become more beautiful in the preceding minutes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Clawson peeks her head in and says, “So far so good, ladies! Ten minutes! And, Willowdean, your mother needs to speak with you.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He had a few more minutes to destroy seventeen years of evidence. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get chocolate ice cream swirled with Oreos, and for the ten minutes it takes to eat it, I almost feel normal again. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

It takes me a few minutes to come up with anything, then I can’t stop. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But within two or three minutes it was all over. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Her husband was en route to work downtown and would not be there for another thirty-five minutes at least. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But a few minutes later, he found out otherwise. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Sixty minutes of me turning library-book pages with my right hand and June taking notes with her left hand. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A giant column of smoke and ash rose to a height of sixty thousand feet in less than ten minutes. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Whenever he switched positions, he would find relief for five minutes before the pain returned. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In a few minutes the Chevalier Tialys would do the same to his. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Stuart climbed the bank, went into the bushes, and was back in a few minutes wearing a pepper-and-salt jacket, old striped trousers, a Windsor tie, and spectacles. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

In forty minutes, the hallways will fill with kids. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, the detectives were seated at the back of a bus. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every few minutes, Mami or Mundín goes to the window and checks to see if any of the cars have come back. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The children milled about angrily and raised their voices in one steady, monotonous shrieking which continued unabated for five minutes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven waited for the circle above the Spare coven to do the same, but as the seconds and then minutes passed, nothing happened. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Harry glanced at the other two, then said, “We need to discuss this, Griphook, if that’s all right. Could you give us a few minutes?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, she placed a cup of coffee in front of Henry. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later Lyra was knocking on the door of the Master’s lodging, the grand and slightly gloomy house that opened into the Yaxley Quadrangle and backed onto the Library Garden. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The program has been on the air for thirteen minutes. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Faith directs me to lie down and tells me that for our first session she’s only going to leave the needles in for ten minutes. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

And she would be right because only a few minutes later Henry comes back in and says he's going to help me. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Isa’s face quickly matched Benny’s in color, and after a few minutes of quiet, Benny stopped in the middle of the sidewalk. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I was the elder by a few minutes. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour and fifteen minutes until the lullaby of soft violence stops and she blinks awake. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes of these apocalyptic pronouncements, he seemed to wear himself out and fell into an uneasy sleep. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I watched helplessly for fifteen minutes as she struggled to haul herself up the uppermost brow of rock, too exhausted to manage it. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Not just because it was a place where the living gathered, but because for a few minutes at a time they could see all the world, not just their little corner of North America. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

And we drove all the way to Swindon and it took 3 hours 12 minutes and we had to stop for petrol and Mother bought me a Milkybar but I didn’t eat it. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the best way to get to know a person. And in five minutes we can do way more than twenty questions. If we don’t dilly-dally. I’m starting. Ready?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The execution of John Evans took fourteen minutes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He’d been pacing the senate floor for five minutes, going on and on, trying to counter what Percy had told them about Juno’s plan and the Prophecy of Seven. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He left the light on for fifteen whole minutes, terrified the whole time that someone besides Jen might see it. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Was I even the same person I’d been five minutes before? Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Enough!” he called out in a few minutes. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, a small, gray-haired man in a plaid jacket came out to greet us. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He kept me on camera twenty minutes and he asked pointed questions that did not evade the issue. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he lay down in the hammock, removing the wax from his ears with a penknife, and in a few minutes he was asleep. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Even though it’s only five minutes outside of town, most people consider this the country out here. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It takes ten minutes to get to the west stairs on the parade grounds. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

At three a.m., he went downstairs to eat cereal because that’s what Mark always did when he couldn’t sleep, and that’s where Mark found him fifteen minutes later. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he did so, for minutes, hours, maybe even for a day or two. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Will suddenly realised that his tradition-minded family had been standing, patiendy immobile, waiting for five minutes while he read his letter. The Dark is Rising 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor man come through and calls from the front of the car, “Sorry, folks, we expect to be delayed anywhere from forty-five minutes to an hour.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

That is what Pyramus saw when he appeared a few minutes later. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told you he was working the night shift and had to leave in a few minutes. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

When all was said and done, I had driven 81 kilometers in 3 hours and 27 minutes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, Bobbette Lacks walked down the stairs and through the living room slowly, wearing a faded blue terry-cloth robe. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

At ten minutes to noon, Roy and Beatrice arrived; this time she rode the handlebars and he pedaled, the camera stowed safely in his backpack. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within fifteen minutes, I’m sold out, and I go home that afternoon with a heavy pocketful of change. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was long minutes curled around herself just breathing, her throat raw, eyes squeezed shut, before she could even face the truth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Bouts are three periods of three minutes each with a minute rest between each period. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Principal Hornstein had sent the school secretary to call both of them into his office fifteen minutes earlier. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“But then what? I couldn’t talk to you, I couldn’t come over. I mean, Maya, your dad didn’t die, he just moved ten minutes away.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I know you’re sad and angry, and I get it, but we should probably run for the T. My mom is going to pick us up from Davis in fifteen minutes.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The true test, however, would come at the end of the five minutes, when they were to drink from the goblet they deemed the most harmless. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It took me ten minutes to make it back to bed, and, by then, the incision on my stomach throbbed and I’d broken out in a drenching sweat. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Every few minutes, there was a new explosion that rattled Jess’s bones. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

I think of my Liars burning, in their last few minutes, breathing smoke, their skin alight. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

One mouthful every fifteen minutes will make it last and if I wash it down with water the bread will swell in my belly and give me the full feeling. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Forty-five million kids were eating healthier breakfasts and lunches; eleven million students were getting sixty minutes of physical activity every day through our Let’s Move! Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They would have to wait forty-five minutes for the next one, and so they crossed the street and bought clam cakes at the take-out window they had been to before. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, the girls lined up as they had in every pageant. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Class didn’t start for a few minutes, and the room buzzed with conversation. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later they walked up their hill and down the other side, ending up in the middle of a stretch of shops and restaurants. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Millie talks for a few minutes before Patrick and his friends give up and walk off. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Then, twenty minutes later, she’s back at the door, to pick me up for school. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Ten minutes ago you said you were glad\\” “Ten minutes ago Miss Peregrine wasn’t kidnapped!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

If I’d ever questioned why Rain and her friends gave up on city life in San Francisco and founded Garland back in 1967, five minutes on that bus explained it. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

One night, a few minutes before lights out, an older prisoner named Moshe, who had been in four different camps in three years, stopped by Jack’s bunk to visit, as he often did. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

But when I looked at it, the screen was black, out of minutes. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later Dad came to check on me too. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

For ten minutes, fifteen kids — and possibly the universe — held their breath. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Patterson did not notice him until he had been in the trailer for several minutes; he would be staring at the cards, sunk in a stupor. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, he starts humming tunes in Spanish. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Before five minutes went by, the beggar tossed a pebble at us to draw our attention and jerked his head down the street. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Something like fifteen minutes later, Powell said lifelessly, “Let’s go through the ship again. There must be something to eat somewheres.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

They were savvy enough to bargain for forty minutes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Five minutes before the ceremony, I vomited in the women’s bathroom. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He waited for a few minutes; then right as he was thinking about leaving, Eleanor opened the door just enough to slide through. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z