The debate on whether to keep pets lasted forty minutes yesterday afternoon.

关于是否养宠物的争论昨天下午持续了四十分钟。

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When they say something silly or do something ridiculous, there is always the Internet to spread the news in minutes and keep their "story" alive forever.

一旦他们说了一些愚蠢的话、或做了一些荒诞的事，网络总是能在瞬息间把这件事传遍，他们的“黑历史”也就永远无法抹去了。

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I keep the timer set for 30 minutes, and the alarm beeps for 20 seconds when it goes off.

基本上我总是设定30分钟的倒数计时，大约20秒的闹铃。

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On average,students using swear words were able to keep their hand in the water for about two minutes.

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It's not meant to be more than five, ten minutes of work, but the point of the question, -15, 20 minutes of work, but the point of the question is to motivate people to keep up with the material and do the readings.

几分钟就能完成,这个作业的目的,要十几到二十分钟完成吧,这个作业的目的在于激励大家,跟上课程的进度并去阅读材料

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On the other hand, keep in mind that the minutes are written by the staff of the Board of Governors (acting as staff of the FOMC) and that staff considers the chairman to be its boss.

FORBES: What The Fed's Minutes Leave Out

That was not Southend's only chance of the half and it took a superb point-blank save from Petr Cech to keep out Alex Revell's header on 40 minutes to keep the scores level.

BBC: Southend 1-4 Chelsea

She finally prevailed after two hours 12 minutes to keep the defense of her title on track.

CNN: Champion Djokovic rebounds in Rome