They hated Hitler and if his plane shortened the war by a minute it was worth losing their house.

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Tim Stonor of Space Syntax, an urban-design consultancy, points out that the vast majority of the riots took place within a five-minute walk of one of the depressing post-war housing estates which councils are now pulling down.

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After an intense, 16 minute bidding war, an unidentified private European buyer took home the spoils.

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At the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, war-crimes trials are screened in full, usually with a 30-minute buffer so that sensitive statements can be blotted out.

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"This is not America's war, " Bengelsdorf announced, and the crowd at Madison Square Garden responded with a full minute of applause.

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He used his 20-minute speech to try to clear the air with Democratic Congressman John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a decorated Vietnam War veteran who's taken a lot of heat from Republicans for proposing a pullout from Iraq.

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No one involved in the creation of "Love Me Do" or "Dr. No" would have expected that either would be anything more than quick money spinners -- a throwaway two-minute pop song and a low-budget adaptation of a cheap paperback attempting to cash in on the Cold War appetite for espionage thrillers.

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The US aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt is nothing short of a floating airport, capable of launching four war planes every minute from its 4.5 acre flight deck.

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