Takes total elapsed milliseconds and returns a string description of the elapsed time, such as "593 milliseconds, or 4.203 seconds, or 5.111 minutes".

TimeFormatting.cs

using System;

namespace com.williambryanmiller.time {

    class TimeFormatting {

        public static string getDurationDesc(double numMilliseconds) {

            const double Minute = 60000;
            const double Second = 1000;

            double duration = 0;
            string result = string.Empty;

            if (numMilliseconds >= Minute) {
                duration = numMilliseconds / Minute;
                //result = String.Format("{0:0.00}", duration) + " minutes";
                result = duration.ToString("N3") + " minutes";
            } else {
                if (numMilliseconds >= Second) {
                    duration = numMilliseconds / Second;
                    //result = String.Format("{0:00}", duration) + " seconds";
                    result = duration.ToString("N3") + " seconds";
                } else {
                    result = numMilliseconds.ToString() + " milliseconds";
                }
            }

            return result;
        }
    
    }

}