within minutes

idiom

: within a very short amount of time

We called an ambulance and it arrived within minutes.

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With slasher movie elements and twists as jarring as the wooden man's startling features, Oddity had some horror fans within minutes smashing pause to recover from the brutal opening scene before returning to finish McCarthy's curious haunted house tour de force. —

Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2024 Officers, including some who were doing active-shooter training nearby, responded within minutes. —

David Matthews, New York Daily News, 17 Dec. 2024 Authorities arrived at Abundant Life Christian School within minutes of the call and found a teenage student and teacher killed, Barnes said. —

Michael Loria, Journal Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2024 But Indiana is a reliably red state: On election night, the Associated Press called the big-ticket races for all Republicans, declaring wins for governor-elect Braun and President-elect Donald Trump within minutes of the state's last polls closing. —

Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for within minutes

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