His 15 minutes are running into 20 or 30, with who knows how many to come.

The minute they saw me, the kids ran away crying.

"The minute these companies start talking about security, they run the risk of bringing the party to a halt," he said.

Within six minutes, on a single computer, running through a regular phone line, I have fired off 1,000 e-mail messages.

So, for example, programs might take a few minutes to run, but would take half an hour to get themselves set up and going.

The minute there's any real trouble or danger, they run for cover.

I estimated that Mandarin had another two minutes to run.

The minute they'd walked in the room, she practically ran toward it.

According to him, "within a minute I had run out of questions."

Therefore, with a half to 1 minute still to run we should be able to establish visual contact.