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egrep understanding problem

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Can anyone please let me know the meaning of this line,i am not able to understand the egrep part(egrep '^[0-9]{1,2}).This will search for this combination in beginning but what does the values in {}signifies here.

/bin/echo $WhenToRun | egrep '^[0-9]{1,2}:[0-5][0-9]$' >/dev/null

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