Example sentences of "for more than [art] [det] minutes " in BNC.
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1 | Although Frankie had been dozing , he was too hungry to sleep for more than a few minutes at a time . |
2 | As I said in an earlier chapter , the principle of speaking is not to go on for more than a few minutes without getting your audience to do something — applaud or laugh or raise their hands . |
3 | TOWARDS the end of her life my mother was in hospital , a victim of Alzheimer 's Disease , a severe diabetic , unable to walk and increasingly unable to remain conscious for more than a few minutes at a time . |
4 | Hauser noticed again that Frank was very physical , could hardly keep still for more than a few minutes . |
5 | I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe . |
6 | The back-to-back pair of dessert spoons riffled through his fingers , producing an intricate , staccato percussion which he was , however , unable to keep up for more than a few minutes together ; then he would get his fingers tangled up and the spoons would clang to a halt and he would shake his head furiously and begin all over again . |
7 | A breathless , pervasive sense of heat possessed her body at every return of the memory and she was unable to remain settled and at ease in her seat for more than a few minutes at a time . |
8 | Downes himself could not stay for more than a few minutes . |
9 | Not for more than a few minutes ; just time enough to look around with his eyes , around and back at things that had happened to him . |
10 | There were times during the long hours of dark when he did drop into an uneasy doze , but never for more than a few minutes together . |