A few seconds later both the minute and the hour hand of the clock behind him moved closer to twelve.

Watson said that a few minutes before his position moved to within a stroke of the lead.

Five, six, eight minutes, and the train did not move.

Only minutes before, Fuller had rolled his bedding and told them he was moving into the big house.

Those same five minutes were moving slowly, back at the hotel.

Several minutes after the last group of people moved onto the plane, Sawyer walked down the jetwalk.

Long minutes moved by; there was no further response across the wire.

And the minutes moved one after the other with fateful deliberation.

"Can you sit with your brother for ten minutes without moving?"

Every three minutes, they would change hands and move one knot further down the rope.