within minutes

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: within a very short amount of time

We called an ambulance and it arrived within minutes.

Examples of within minutes in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Saturday morning calm at Catalina Island Health’s two-bed emergency room was broken just before noon, when two tourists with arm injuries burst in within minutes of one another. — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026

Rogers found one of the rings within minutes of running his metal detector over the yard’s lush green grass. — Kansas City Star, 5 Aug. 2026

The full platter arrives back at your seat within minutes, with mixed and pickled veggies, potatoes, rice, roti, and papadums. — Shindy Chen, Southern Living, 1 Aug. 2026

Devastating diagnosis Sure enough, within minutes of their arrival, a doctor at Children's was preparing the couple for the devastating news that Seba had some form of leukemia. — Lisa Hughes, CBS News, 31 July 2026