minute detail

collocation in English

meaningsofminuteanddetail

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minute
adjective
uk
/maɪˈnjuːt/us
/maɪˈnuːt/
extremely ...
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detail
noun
uk
/ˈdiː.teɪl/us
/dɪˈteɪl/us
/ˈdiː.teɪl/
a single piece of information or fact ...
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(Definition ofminuteanddetailfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofminute detail

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It turned the exotic background sounds of folk music into leading characters, larger than life, revealing inminutedetailtheir inner qualities.
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Here, again, the concern is to describe, sometimes inminutedetail, federal legislation.
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Figure 1 (his figure 22) shows some of theminutedetailupon which the controversy centered.
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But to begin with, 'in the same manner' cannot mean 'in exactly the same manner, down to the mostminutedetail'.
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Zoning ordinances worked out inminutedetailwith thoughtfully drawn district boundaries based on detailed knowledge of local conditions could endow almost any regulation with an "impregnable" character.
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We do not need to study everything agreed by the social partners inminutedetail.
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Why does it seek to regulate inminutedetailevery aspect of a port's operation?
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Why, too, do we now also want to prescribe inminutedetailthe hours that family members may work?
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I feel sure that he can follow all these points in veryminutedetail.
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The regulations appeared to prescribe in the mostminutedetailprecisely how products should be described, marketed and sold.
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One was the principle that it wasminutedetail.
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That shows the nonsense of trying to peer inminutedetailinto the future.
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It is clear that there is now every need for every citizen to regard his own consumption in the mostminutedetail.
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They are looked at as impartially and in asminutedetailas possible.
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Everyminutedetailof the education system and how it is to work is now cast in reinforced concrete.
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This is a large area and it would not be right for me to try to elaborate on it inminutedetail.
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It shows the degree to which he has personally supervised everyminutedetailof the production of this house.
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Their cost accounts were kept with thatminutedetailwhich modern business has made necessary.
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They tie down the local housing authority to an immense degree and tominutedetail.
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