within minutes

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: within a very short amount of time

We called an ambulance and it arrived within minutes.

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Centering on Trump cabinet confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill, Fox News cut in a little later than CNN, the BBC and MSNBC, but were in full coverage mode within minutes. —

Dominic Patten, Deadline, 15 Jan. 2025 Unlike prolonged snowstorms, these squalls can develop within minutes, creating hazardous conditions for drivers. —

Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025 Ross reached Robbie’s Marina on Stock Island within minutes and paramedics took Wildmon to the Lower Keys Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 9:37 p.m. —

David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 13 Jan. 2025 In Huntersville, a person pinned in a car in one of three wrecks within minutes of each other was hospitalized with serious injuries, firefighters said. —

Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 11 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for within minutes

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