Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] a few minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside the wind grew even more savage and we cut short the one doomed attempt to raise the tent , retreating to the truck for a few minutes of poor slumber . |
| 2 | They sat in the car for a few minutes without speaking . |
| 3 | The results suggested that the half-life of these complexes was short , in the range of a few minutes for P A2b and of 10–20 seconds for P A3 , since the DNA-strand opening was undetectable at both promoters after a 10 minutes challenge and , in the case of P A3 , considerably reduced after a 15 seconds challenge ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 4 | It was the work of a few minutes . |
| 5 | Leaving her mother-in-law in charge of the tea-stall for a few minutes , Elizabeth went back to the inn-yard with Tamar and the coachman . |
| 6 | An air ambulance was on the scene within a few minutes , but Ranetta , whose mother arrived shortly afterwards , was already dead . |
| 7 | She considered the question for a few minutes before she replied , ‘ Barbados takes a bit of getting used to , but its good points far outweigh the bad . |
| 8 | " Ah , " he said , when almost out of sight , back in the depths of the room , not far from the small winding-stair he had entered the room by a few minutes earlier . |
| 9 | She stood in the foyer for a few minutes , jotting into her notebook the things he had told her . |
| 10 | The bark starts them all off and they howl at the moon for a few minutes . |
| 11 | The airport fire service was alongside the wreck within a few minutes but there was little the firemen could do . |
| 12 | I think we 'll look at the news in a few minutes to see what the weather 's going to be and then , do you want any ice cream or anything ? |
| 13 | He would usually appear in answer to the signal within a few minutes , for each sereno has a certain section to patrol . |
| 14 | The occasional guard braved the discomfort for a few minutes before retiring to the cool of the corridors . |
| 15 | So I lay in the dinghy for a few minutes , to recover myself , and think . |
| 16 | I went into my own bedroom and sat on the bed for a few minutes . |
| 17 | The Chief Constable must have called in the Yard within a few minutes of getting the news . |
| 18 | On an outcrop of rock , Kitty Dawson looked down on the valley for a few minutes . |
| 19 | The Prime Minister changed the subject for a few minutes and then agreed . |
| 20 | Erm , I understand that you are willing to answer questions from the floor for a few minutes . |
| 21 | But if there is someone else waiting with you , and you feel shy doing some of the more noticeable ones , disappear to the cloakroom for a few minutes and do them there . |
| 22 | She left the surgery clutching Lizzie 's collar ; in the space of a few minutes it was all she had been left with , apart from memories . |
| 23 | Claudia asked , her heart sinking at the idea of Dana rushing from shorts into a wedding dress in the space of a few minutes . |
| 24 | The bathroom 's a bit chilly but once you 've put that heater on and shut the door for a few minutes it 's |
| 25 | I could get to the car-park in a few minutes if I wanted to and be near him , thinking of him — his problems over , lying on the brown eiderdown in his blue pyjamas . |
| 26 | The girl sat quietly in the sunshine for a few minutes . |
| 27 | She did n't mind talking to the doctor for a few minutes , if that was what he wanted . |
| 28 | Twice he fell for it , running half-dressed out of the room and instructing everyone to hold the show for a few minutes . |
| 29 | I remained at the roadside for a few minutes , sitting on the grass with my back to a low wall . |
| 30 | After studying the situation for a few minutes the first macaque ran off and got a long stick . |