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Do you have a few **minutes**? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Popolon and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2545019](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2545019) [\#2934235](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2934235)) - Il était une heure et treize **minutes** du soir. It was thirteen **minutes** past one. ([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) - Je n'aurai pas besoin de trois **minutes**. However, I will not need three **minutes**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1312868) - au bout de 15 **minutes** at the end of 15 **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 1750226) - 5 **minutes**, tous les composants du faisceau-route allumés 5 **minutes**, all driving beam contributors lit ([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) ## few Used about 4 times in the texts (literary ≈ 4). Meaning: [few in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/few/). - Ils n'échangèrent pas d'autres paroles, et quelques **minutes** après leur chandelle était éteinte. They exchanged no further words, and a **few** moments later their candle was extinguished. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8899) - Les deux mères causèrent quelques **minutes** très bas dans l'angle du parloir, puis la prieure se retourna et dit: The two mothers consulted for a **few** moments in very low tones in the corner of the parlor, then the prioress turned round and said:— ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12448) - Au bout de quelques **minutes**, Quasimodo promena sur la foule un regard désespéré, et répéta d'une voix plus déchirante encore: «À boire!» At the expiration of a **few** moments, Quasimodo cast a desperate glance upon the crowd, and repeated in a voice still more heartrending: “Drink!” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3532) - Au bout de quelques **minutes**, il s'élança convulsivement vers la pièce d'argent, la saisit, et, se redressant, se mit à regarder au loin dans la plaine, jetant à la fois ses yeux vers tous les points de l'horizon, debout et frissonnant comme une bête fauve effarée qui cherche un asile. At the expiration of a **few** moments he darted convulsively towards the silver coin, seized it, and straightened himself up again and began to gaze afar off over the plain, at the same time casting his eyes towards all points of the horizon, as he stood there erect and shivering, like a terrified wild animal which is seeking refuge. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 2473) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Les **minutes** de nos discussions sont tenues par le secrétaire. The records of our discussions are kept by the secretary. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Dejo · checked, community translation · [\#28875](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/28875) [\#1786269](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1786269)) - L'école commence à huit heures et dix **minutes**. School begins at 8.10 a.m. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Petro1 and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#11935613](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11935613) [\#9424](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9424)) - Il était alors midi et quelques **minutes**. It was then a little past noon. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2598) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/). ## 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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