But crucial minutes passed before the F-16's could rev up and take off.

A paramedic unit was called, but was too many crucial minutes away.

"That was a crucial 15, 20 minutes for me," he explained later.

First, Stu Jackson started yanking him in the crucial last minutes of close games.

As crucial minutes passed, the previously regular tracing began to look more and more erratic.

Four rookies played crucial minutes for the Giants' defense.

Williams played nine crucial minutes during the first half, when Ewing was in foul trouble.

For the next few crucial minutes there would be no one else to hold them off but Jack alone.

This was Tagliabue's idea to take the coaches off the hook in those crucial minutes.

Whoever had sent this thing would believe it still active, at least for the next crucial minutes.