Example sentences of "[prep] every [adj] minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now big lorries went past every five minutes , carrying things for the new buildings . |
| 2 | Most people could recite its slogan , ‘ Every seven minutes someone passes with BSM ’ ( now in fact it is more like every six minutes ) . |
| 3 | And about every five minutes she says ‘ There 's six cars down there ’ . |
| 4 | By now the contractions were lasting 45 seconds and coming about every five minutes . |
| 5 | Rather , while they showed the same pattern of alternating between slow wave sleep and REM sleep about every ninety minutes , the proportion of light sleep stages ( I and 2 ) was low . |
| 6 | Well it 's it 's like you trying to say you 're gon na boil a pan of potatoes and you 've got ta keep turning it off every two minutes , cos it 'll be getting too hot ! |
| 7 | The waiters do n't have menus , they come and shout at you and if you 're sitting ‘ upstairs ’ on the ground floor , as opposed to the much more plebby basement , then they turn the lights off every twenty minutes or so and all the diners have to dance by candlelight for two minutes whether they want to or not . |
| 8 | Have one of your boys monitor it , once , say , in every fifteen minutes . ’ |
| 9 | they 'll obviously be moving about and tutors ca n't be faffing round every two minutes if something goes wrong . |
| 10 | The buxom Mlle Gilles is called upon every 10 minutes to reveal her all ( or three-quarters of it ) and while this is no sight to be despised , she could have appeared stark-naked from beginning to end and still failed to distract our attention from the movie 's essential mediocrity . ’ |
| 11 | It can therefore vary from every few minutes to once a year but I usually begin with once a day . |
| 12 | Personally , by the time I had cycled up the hill in the dark , battling against high winds and rain , wearing my rain cape in a futile attempts to keep dry , I felt more like flopping into bed than sitting up all night making silly marks on a chart and plunging outside every sixty minutes to see if it was still raining . |
| 13 | When a set comes through , which may be anything from every five to every forty minutes , the more experienced surfers will take the second or third wave of the group since these are normally the biggest . |
| 14 | So it 's auto save every ten minutes |