From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthe next minutethe next minuteIMMEDIATELYimmediately afterwards I put down the phone and the next minute it rang again. → minute
Examples from the Corpus
the next minute• But the next minute there were shrieks.• For the next minute Diana and the old soldier stood laughing delightedly together.• One minute he could be smiling and joking, the next minute he could be exploding.• One moment he was against lawsuits, the next minute his team filed one.• Then the next minute he's swearing. 