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1  There was perhaps a minute in which to act.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  In its second minute the Hate rose to a frenzy.
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3  The Physical Jerks would begin in three minutes.
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4  I'll give you in charge in 'alf a minute, I says.'
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5  And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.
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6  The whole incident could not have taken as much as half a minute.
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7  Within another minute, perhaps, it would have crumbled into ashes.
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8  Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.
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9  One minute more, and the feral roars of rage were again bursting from the crowd.
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10  And then, for perhaps half a minute in all, something happened to the telescreens.
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11  Year by year and minute by minute, everybody and everything was whizzing rapidly upwards.
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12  As for the third message, it referred to a very simple error which could be set right in a couple of minutes.
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13  Winston sat for a minute or two gazing at his empty glass, and hardly noticed when his feet carried him out into the street again.
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14  The lane widened, and in a minute he came to the footpath she had told him of, a mere cattle-track which plunged between the bushes.
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15  He did not know how long she had been looking at him, but perhaps for as much as five minutes, and it was possible that his features had not been perfectly under control.
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16  The music went on and on, minute after minute, with astonishing variations, never once repeating itself, almost as though the bird were deliberately showing off its virtuosity.
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17  Exactly as his mother had sat on the dingy white-quilted bed, with the child clinging to her, so she had sat in the sunken ship, far underneath him, and drowning deeper every minute, but still looking up at him through the darkening water.
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