Below you will find example sentences with "minutes apart". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Minutes Apart in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: apart
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 3
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 20.6 words

Words in this phrase

minutes apart

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • minutes can mean: plural of minute Common word
  • apart can mean: Placed separately (in regard to space or time). Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

a couple minutes apart 1× about 10 minutes apart 1× about 10 minutes apart from each 1× about 16 minutes apart in the 1× about 90 minutes apart 1× and five minutes apart 1× attacks only minutes apart 1× be 12 minutes apart 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

minutes apart from 2× amber delong and 1× ben hiltz would 1× brothers corporal edley 1× caleb and christian 1× finchley has been 1×

Common sentence endings:

10 minutes apart 1× 12 minutes apart 1× 4 minutes apart 1× 5 news reported 1× 5 to play 1× 90 minutes apart 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

two 6× typically 2× simmonds 2× killed 2× new 2× scored 2× period 2× first 2× truck 2× live 2× days 2× shot 2×

Related phrases

seven minutes minutes remaining twenty minutes falls apart feet apart fell apart

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around apart:

falls apart 5× feet apart 4× fell apart 3×

Just before it in the phrase index:

minority leader minority groups minor scale minor league minor injuries minnesota vikings

Just after it in the phrase index:

minutes remaining mirror group misdemeanor count miss teen miss universe miss world

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

minutes remaining

Same ending:

falls apart feet apart fell apart

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "minutes apart" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 20.6 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a couple minutes apart, about 10 minutes apart, two, typically and simmonds stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with seven minutes, minutes remaining, twenty minutes, falls apart, feet apart and fell apart, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with minutes apart

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

They were a minute long and five minutes apart. (9 words)

It made 5 passes over my house about 10 minutes apart. (11 words)

Caleb and Christian we’re traveling the trail only a couple minutes apart. (13 words)

Longer example sentences

The Vancouver Whitecaps gave up goals about 16 minutes apart in the first half to drop a 3-1 decision to New York City FC Saturday night, losing their third Major League Soccer game in eight days. (37 words)

Two days before Vallecer was killed, the election officer of a town in Sultan Kudarat province was shot dead while a candidate for governor in Sarangani was injured in separate attacks only minutes apart. (34 words)

Minutes apart from this shooting, another gun battle took place at the parking lot in North Charleston around 1:33 p.m., Live 5 News reported. (26 words)

Example sentences (20)

Tee times, which originally had to be 20 minutes apart, can now be 12 minutes apart.

These lines were typically 100 yds apart and the lifts were typically 4 minutes apart.

Brothers Corporal Edley and Private James Simmonds were killed minutes apart in Papua New Guinea, and are the namesakes of the DRA's Operation Simmonds.

Ryan Poehling and Chad Ruhwedel scored a little over two minutes apart in the second period for Pittsburgh.

They will rise around 8:30 p.m. about 10 minutes apart from each other (the moon first) at the west end of Taurus.

Finchley has been rocked by a fatal crash and a stabbing which happened just 20 minutes apart yesterday evening (Thursday, September 12).

Minutes apart from one another, two Waymo cars came across the same tow truck that was pulling a pickup truck in Phoenix, Arizona.

The live broadcast games offered by this bookie are scheduled just minutes apart or run continuously, offering non-stop action.

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Two days before Vallecer was killed, the election officer of a town in Sultan Kudarat province was shot dead while a candidate for governor in Sarangani was injured in separate attacks only minutes apart.

Amber DeLong and Jaden Woiwode scored two minutes apart early in the second period to extend St. Croix Valley’s lead to 3-0.

Caleb and Christian we’re traveling the trail only a couple minutes apart.

Isabella, Nathaniel, and Adriel were born 2 minutes apart on June 4. Mom and her babies were healthy, safe and undeniably resilient, hospital officials said.

Minutes apart from this shooting, another gun battle took place at the parking lot in North Charleston around 1:33 p.m., Live 5 News reported.

Police say two people were shot to death just minutes apart early Sunday in southwest Charlotte.

Their baby boys apparently agreed and arrived earlier this month about 90 minutes apart.

The two executions were three minutes apart, leading researchers to believe that the user was tricked into running them.

It made 5 passes over my house about 10 minutes apart.

The Vancouver Whitecaps gave up goals about 16 minutes apart in the first half to drop a 3-1 decision to New York City FC Saturday night, losing their third Major League Soccer game in eight days.

They were a minute long and five minutes apart.

Ben Hiltz would get 2 goals, 6 minutes apart to bring things to within one with less than 5 to play.

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