Its movement was inferred by geologists who detected minute shifts in various mountain peaks.

Only minute shifts of light on her shirt suggested that she was moving at all.

In a town obsessed with calibrating minute shifts in power, few pastimes are more consuming than watching the mighty stumble.

However, moving it to the position of a fat man, or an old man, requires the minutest shift and the keenest knowledge of human nature.

- can depend on the minutest shifts in fashion or office politics.

Workers are now trying to clear one of the reactor buildings at Fukushima, but are limited to 10 minute shifts.

For a long time, his mind moving deep into the stones, he heard nothing but the occasional, minute shift of a particle of mortar.

The government is using signals from satellites and distant stars to measure minute shifts in the earth's crust.

When a dozen more were in place, they'd put tension on the cables to prevent the minutest shift.

The soil in that part of the country reacts to changes in weather, she said, and can cause minute shifts in the track position.