"minute" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The minutes stretched away in an endless parade until there was no longer either beginning or end to them.
- The minutes stretched into quarter hours, those to the inevitable hour, and then two more of them.
- Actually, that few minutes stretched to a good two hours, for we were beat.
- The minutes stretched on until finally the contestants could wait no longer.
- Ten minutes had stretched to more than an hour.
- During the ski season, however, the street is clogged with cars, and so five minutes could easily stretch into 20 or more.
- Tense minutes stretched into an hour, then two and three.
- The five minutes they intended to stay stretched into three hours.
- The minutes, however, stretched into quarter hours and these into over an hour.
- But when you're down and all alone, every minute stretches into a poisonous eternity.
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