| 1. | "In a minute I shall melt away.. - from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum |
| 2. | Half a minute brought it all out. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 3. | A minute later, Tommy held one up. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 4. | All complete, in a minute or two-. - from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling |
| 5. | I forgot myself half a minute ago. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 6. | Every minute gained was to the good. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 7. | "You heard me say why, a minute ago. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 8. | In half a minute they were together. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 9. | that fill each minute of time forever. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 10. | He must stay two minutes longer. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 11. | It was twenty minutes to twelve. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 12. | A few minutes brought them to Mr. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 13. | In about five minutes he returned. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 14. | No, it was twenty minutes to eight. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 15. | In a few minutes he was back again. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 16. | It was twenty-five minutes past four. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 17. | He waited for some minutes listening. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 18. | For a few minutes there was a tussle. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |