within minutes

phrase

: within a very short amount of time
We called an ambulance and it arrived within minutes.

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Nolla says the process can produce a treatment plan and prescription within minutes. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026 Hayoun, apologizing for his bloody shirt, within minutes was telling the prime minister and journalists what happened. — Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026 On some routes, people checking the same trip within minutes of one another received several different prices. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026 The first-stage booster was never meant to return to the Starbase launch site either, instead dropping into the Gulf of Mexico within minutes of the morning liftoff. — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for within minutes

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“Within minutes.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/within%20minutes. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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