closing, final, opening
He scored in the final minutes of the game.

passing
With each passing minute, the tension mounts.

full, whole
The noise lasted almost a full minute.

long
Ten long minutes later, he finally had the results.

precious
Gina wasted ten precious minutes on her final test question.

agonizing, tense
For ten agonizing minutes she couldn't find her son.

spend
I spent ten minutes dealing with emails.

last, take
waste
count
Tracey was already counting the minutes until the weekend.

elapse, pass, tick by
The minutes ticked by and still nothing happened.

fly by
turn into sth
Fifteen minutes turned into thirty, and still no one called.

hand
the minute hand on the clock

after … minutes
After twenty minutes I started to get worried.

for … minutes
We waited for ten minutes and then left.

in … minutes
The movie starts in ten minutes.

minutes after (AmE), minutes past (esp. BrE)
four minutes after/past two

minutes of (AmE), minutes to
ten minutes to three

last
Don't leave everything till the last minute.

next
One minute he was fine and the next minute he collapsed on the floor.

spare
If you have a few spare minutes, you could clean the kitchen.

hang on, hold on, wait
Could you wait a minute, please?

have, spare
Do you have a minute, Miss Brown?
Can you spare a minute?

take
This will only take a minute.

in a minute
I'll be with you in a minute.

within minutes
The ship sank within minutes.

every waking minute
They spend every waking minute together.

just a minute
the minute sth happens
Tell him I want to see him the minute he arrives.

not for a minute
I never thought for a minute he'd refuse.

this minute
Come here this minute!

keep, take
Who's going to take minutes? (esp. AmE)
Who's going to take the minutes? (esp. BrE)

circulate
read
agree (BrE), approve, sign (BrE)
write up
I wrote up the minutes of the meeting and circulated them by email.

the minutes of a meeting