Meanings of critical minutes in English

The idea was to get armed offenders squads out to jobs faster, in what might be critical minutes.

For all these years Henrik has tried to work out who opened the window in Harriet's room during those critical minutes.

My ruse with the first-floor door wouldn't stymie the FBI for long, but it had bought us a few critical minutes.

For the present, however, the chief trouble was caused by Lucien, whose address had saved matters at the few critical minutes of Brumaire.

There is also now an agreement to release a small number of extracts from the most critical minutes of more than 200 cabinet-level discussions.

There was quick work and heart-breaking to be done, and, for the first few critical minutes, a terrible lack of hands to do it.

Too often in the final critical minutes Australia lost its composure and threw wayward passes or missed jump shots as their nerves jangled with tension.