Example sentences of "only a few minutes [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Quick action is vital , since anyone who stops breathing can usually live for only a few minutes without help .
2 She was familiar enough with the garden by this time to return in only a few minutes with sheafs of colourful tropical blooms , and she arranged them in two big vases to make riotously informal bunches of colour that lacked classical form but would , she hoped , be pleasing to Faye 's artistic eye .
3 I 've nothing against these two teams , but to be deprived of the euphoric English faces after only a few minutes of joy and achievement was an insult .
4 felt too tired to drive me on to ESF 's house , so I got there by bus , or rather by two buses ( an easy change ) , the first starting from about a hundred yards from and the other stopping just behind the Zoo by Primrose Hill and only a few minutes from Eduardo .
5 It 's only a few minutes by air , ’ he explained when she looked astonished .
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