MINUTE + VERB
- pass, tick by
- The minutes ticked by and still nothing happened
MINUTE + NOUN
- hand
- the minute hand on the clock
PREP
- after … ~s
- After twenty minutes I started to get worried
- for … ~s
- We waited for ten minutes and then left
- in … ~s
- The film starts in ten minutes
- ~s past
- four minutes past two
- ~s to
- ten minutes to three
ADJ
- last
- Don't leave everything till the last minute
VERB + MINUTE
- hang on, hold on, wait
- Could you wait a minute, please?
- have, spare
- Do you have a minute, Miss Brown? Can you spare a minute?
- take
- This will only take a minute
PREP
- in a ~
- I'll be with you in a minute
- within ~s
- The ship sank within minutes
PHRASES
- just a minute, the minute sth happens
- Tell him I want to see him the minute he arrives
- not for a minute
- I never thought for a minute he'd refuse
- this minute
- Come here this minute!
VERB + MINUTE
- keep, take
- Who's going to take the minutes?
- circulate
- read
- agree, approve, sign
- write up
- I wrote up the minutes of the meeting and circulated them by email
