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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Popolon · checked, community translation · [\#2545019](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2545019) [\#2934235](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2934235)) - It was thirteen **minutes** past one. Il était une heure et treize **minutes** du soir. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1444) - You are quite right, you had three **minutes**. Vous avez tout à fait raison, vous disposiez de trois **minutes**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 49387) - time in hours and **minutes**; le temps, en heures et **minutes**; ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4749405) - 5 **minutes**, all driving beam contributors lit 5 **minutes**, tous les composants du faisceau-route allumés ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 21057885) ## verbal Used about 7 766 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 6 467 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 299). - Approval of the **Minutes** Adoption du procès-**verbal** ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1746498) - **Minutes** and operational conclusions Procès-**verbal** et conclusions opérationnelles ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4157807) - The draft **minutes** shall be submitted to the GI Sub-Committee for approval. Le projet de procès-**verbal** est soumis au sous-comité IG pour approbation. ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 237095) - The **Minutes** were approved Le procès-**verbal** est adopté ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1959121) - tick if the **minutes** of the consultations have been added to this report cocher si le procès-**verbal** des consultations a été joint au présent rapport ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 393038) ## pendant Used about 119 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 118). - They plunged among the trees of the boulevard behind him, and there created, for a few **minutes**, in the gloom, a sort of vague white spot, then disappeared. Elles s'enfoncèrent sous les arbres du boulevard derrière lui, et y firent **pendant** quelques instants dans l'obscurité une espèce de blancheur vague qui s'effaça. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15833) - If a rerun of the installation of the 3-D H machine is desired, the seat assembly should remain unloaded for a minimum period of 30 **minutes** prior to the rerun. En cas de nouvelle installation du mannequin 3-D H, l’ensemble siège-dos doit être laissé au repos **pendant** au moins 30 min avant la réinstallation. ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 5592706) ## cinq Used about 1 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1). - It was five **minutes** past eight. Il n'était que huit heures **cinq**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 3187) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - After a silence lasting several **minutes**, he approached the female Jondrette, and halted in front of her, with folded arms, as he had done a moment before:— Après quelques instants de ce silence, il s'approcha de la Jondrette et s'arrêta devant elle, les bras croisés, comme le moment d'auparavant. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16670) - Several **minutes** passed thus, then a sound of footsteps, measured, heavy, and numerous, became distinctly audible in the direction of Saint-Leu. Quelques instants s'écoulèrent encore, puis un bruit de pas, mesuré, pesant, nombreux, se fit entendre distinctement du côté de Saint-Leu. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24493) - After the lapse of a few **minutes**, he was no longer blind. Au bout de quelques instants, il n'était plus aveugle. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27581) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. Every example names its source and licence. 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