There were ten minutes left / There were ten minutes remained / There were ten minutes remaining

Hi
I can't see any difference between
There were ten minutes left - and - there were ten minutes remaining.
'There were ten minutes remained' is not possible
However you could say:
Ten minutes remained - ten minutes were all that remained.

- There were ten minutes left.
- There were ten minutes remained.
- There were ten minutes remaining.

The middle one is not grammatically possible.
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Question: would it be better to say "There was ten minutes left"?
I know time, money, distance, etc., often seem to be uncountable.
That ten dollars is needed...? Hmm, all this is still confusing to me.
Thanks.

Kooyeen:
But minutes are definitely countable. There are 60 of them in an hour. I make every minute of every day count! (I am a brutal taskmaster to those poor minutes)

Hi Alph,
yes, but I remember being told that... you say "There is ten dollars", usually, not "There are ten dollars", and that money, time, distance, etc., were usually seen as uncountable. So I was wondering if it was more natural to say "There is/was ten minutes left" instead, or "There is/was still ten miles to walk before etc."
It's confusing because in Italian we would just use the

KooyeenThere is/was ten minutes left

Yes. It's more casual, but it sounds fine to my ear.

There were ten dollars in my wallet. I spent one, and then there were nine.