(1) A 33-year old woman was admitted with high fever and excruciating pain in the lower right abdomen that had lasted on and off for months.
(2) However, after her diagnosis, it became my occupation to know everything about her ailment because I was her caregiver during her excruciating decline.
(3) It is an excruciating fly-on-the-wall witness to Allison's vainglory, Swales's self-regard for his own leadership qualities and the poor young players' overpromoted helplessness.
(4) Another great feature of the panda, at least as far as Chairman Mao Zedong and his followers were concerned, was that the rest of the world, particularly the west, had become obsessed by its excruciatingly cute looks and behaviour.
(5) Far from being relaxed, I feel excruciatingly uncomfortable and begin to wonder if my jaw is malfunctioning.
(6) (Mail Online goes into excruciating detail on the methods Williams used, but does so in the body copy of an article.)
(7) The film charts in excruciating detail the collapse of a political career and, ultimately, of a marriage.
(8) One more win now, one more good performance against the sort of team they have swatted aside all season, and the long, often excruciating wait will be over: City will be champions.
(9) In the very act of describing sex as an incidental, you create an excruciating sex scene.
(10) Our most excruciating agony is of not being noticed in the world.
(11) An effective piece of propaganda at the time, it makes pretty excruciating viewing now that we know what happens next.
(12) With Foord having lost his entire leg, including his hip, even getting him out of bed and sitting in his wheelchair was excruciating.
(13) "The timing is excruciating for whomever wins the next election."
(14) A women who has been infibulated suffers great difficulty and pain during sexual intercourse, which can be excruciating if a neuroma has formed at the point of section of the dorsal nerve of the clitoris.
(15) During the first postoperative week little pain was experienced by 60% of the patients, considerable pain by 35% and excruciating pain by 5% of the patients being interviewed.
(16) Yet if I tell you I’ve had a chronic illness since early childhood that is known for excruciating pain, for causing immobility and secondary – sometimes life-threatening – conditions, does that change your view of my suicide attempt?
(17) As well as being a pallid substitute for actual creativity – a device for making grey business wonks mistake themselves for David Bowie at his experimental peak – these books are the direct suit-and-tie office-dick equivalent of those embarrassing motivational self-help tomes that prey on the insecure, promising to turn their life around before dissolving into a blancmange of "strategies" and "systems" and above all excruciating metaphors.
(18) Perhaps it signifies an end to those media appearances in which politicians share the contents of their iPods or talk, excruciatingly, about their love of whatever indie band their aide has decided they should like, in an attempt to persuade voters they're young and fun.
(19) The real importance of Thomas Piketty's blockbuster, Capital in the 21st Century , is that it demonstrates, in excruciating detail (and this remains true despite some predictable petty squabbling) that, in the case of at least one core equation, the numbers simply don't add up .
(20) The disease is often serious and can cause excruciating pain in the joints and other parts of the body.
Minute
Definition:
(n.) The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.)
(n.) The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds (Marked thus ('); as, 10¡ 20').
(n.) A nautical or a geographic mile.
(n.) A coin; a half farthing.
(n.) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a tittle.
(n.) A point of time; a moment.
(n.) The memorandum; a record; a note to preserve the memory of anything; as, to take minutes of a contract; to take minutes of a conversation or debate.
(n.) A fixed part of a module. See Module.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a minute or minutes; occurring at or marking successive minutes.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
(a.) Very small; little; tiny; fine; slight; slender; inconsiderable.
(a.) Attentive to small things; paying attention to details; critical; particular; precise; as, a minute observer; minute observation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Frenchman’s 65th-minute goal was a fifth for United and redemptive after he conceded the penalty from which CSKA Moscow took a first-half lead.
(2) They spend about 4.3 minutes of each working hour on a smoking break, the study shows.
(3) Both development of EDTA-resistant fibrinogen binding and fibrinogen association with the cytoskeleton were time dependent and reached maxima 45 to 60 minutes after fibrinogen binding to stimulated platelets.
(4) Average fluoroscopy time per procedure was 27.8 minutes of which 15.1 minutes were for nephrostomy tube insertion and 12.7 minutes were for calculi extraction.
(5) In some experiments heart rate and minute ventilation (central vactors) appear to be the dominant cues for rated perceived exertion, while in others, local factors such as blood lactate concentration and muscular discomfort seem to be the prominent cues.
(6) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
(7) Preincubation of the bacteria at 56 degrees C for 30 minutes and ultraviolet irradiation resulted in a noticeable decrease in adherence.
(8) Densitometric analysis of myofibrillar proteins separated with sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis indicated that troponin I and troponin T were degraded during 60 minutes of CGI.
(9) Median time for ventilatory support was 90 minutes after transfer to the area.
(10) One-half of the specimens were treated with citric acid, pH 1, for 3 minutes, while the remainder served as untreated control specimens.
(11) The court heard that Hall confronted one girl in the staff quarters of a hotel within minutes of her being chosen to appear as a cheerleader on his BBC show It's a Knockout.
(12) The drug-picrate chromophores maximally absorb within the first minute of reaction (21 s for phenacemide, 45 s for cephalothin), after which the absorbances decrease.
(13) During periods of wet steam it was impossible to maintain consistent sterility of the mouse pellets even using a cycle of 126 degrees C for 60 minutes.
(14) Immediately prior to and at maximal workloads, carbon monoxide shifted into extravascular spaces and returned to the vascular space within five minutes after exercise stopped.
(15) The mutations of both strains (termed hha-2 and hha-3) were mapped at minute 10.5 of the E. coli chromosome.
(16) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
(17) The visitors did have a chance to pull another back with three minutes remaining but Henry blazed a free-kick from within range on the left over the bar, summing up Wolves’ day out in the East Midlands.
(18) In a second set of test sessions, volunteers chewed sugarless gum for 10 minutes, starting 15 minutes after they ate the snack food.
(19) On the other hand, the injection of minute quantities of endotoxin into PbAc(2)-sensitized rats invariably resulted in disseminated intravascular coagulation, apparently via a complete activation of the intrinsic pathway.
(20) Basal as well as furosemide stimulated plasma renin activity (at 10, 30 and 240 minutes) was reduced, as well as the transient increase in excretion rates of 6-keto-PGF1 alpha and TXB2.