Example sentences of "a [adj] minutes [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Just a few minutes ago the ambulance carrying the two boys arrived at Stoke Mandeville . |
2 | To her surprise a few minutes later the taxi pulled up outside a fashion shop in one of the main city streets as the driver indicated she had reached her destination . |
3 | A few minutes later the company sergeant-major marched out of the tent to collect him . |
4 | A few minutes later the train arrived in Duisburg and we got out . |
5 | A few minutes later the spaceship landed and I was home . |
6 | A few minutes later the spaceship was falling towards a planet covered with tall buildings . |
7 | A few minutes later the ship saw us and turned . |
8 | A few minutes later the Doctor had reached the valley . |
9 | A recent view is that a postsynaptic kinase is activated transiently ( for less than a few minutes following the tetanus ) and a presynaptic kinase is activated for longer periods ( but for less than 1 hour ) . |
10 | After a few minutes more the conversation was beginning to flag . |