Example sentences of "[art] [adj] minute [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once Pool had done their plundering a twin strike in the sixteenth minute the match , as a contest , was over . |
| 2 | In the dying minutes the computer men rallied to net two in succession and CMS found themselves fighting to hold the one goal difference . |
| 3 | More than 12 vans and cars were stopped during the 35 minutes the road block was in position . |
| 4 | In the 70th minute a splendid move involving Smyth , Fields and Woods was finished off by S Reid to put the Olympic two up . |
| 5 | But Townsend gave his side a deserved lead in the 19th minute The Republic of Ireland midfielder was perfectly positioned in the nineteenth minute when Graeme Le Saux touched back a crossfield ball from Fleck for his skipper to drive home a low shot . |
| 6 | In the 36th minute the Dragons had their best effort of the half when Coleman was found by a precise ball from Springett but he shot wide . |
| 7 | But for Gerard Houlahan 's supreme skill in driving home Armagh 's first goal in the 25th minute the orchard county would surely have been dead and gone by the interval instead of trailing by just one point at 0–7 to 1–3 . |
| 8 | In the 68th minute the huge Musselburgh contingent in the crowd went wild when McMillan broke up the blindside and sent winger Craig Ramsey racing in for a try to put his side 14-10 up . |
| 9 | In the 69th minute Duffield stroked the ball home from 12 yards and then in the 71st minute the ball fell to Brett who was free on the right and he drove across goal into the far corner . |
| 10 | In the 64th minute the Lions ' control was threatened when flanker Apollo Perelini was part of a two-on-one against Ieuan Evans , who had no chance to stop the try that Carter converted . |
| 11 | During the final minutes the woman in front of us exploded . |
| 12 | Up until the final minutes the jokes fly as fast as sniper 's bullets . |
| 13 | Nor has the Department decided whether it is going to contribute towards the considerable capital cost of new computers , causing doctors to put off to the last minute a decision on which system to choose . |
| 14 | At the last minute a sense of something unsaid made her hurry after him . |
| 15 | Julia , who called off their wedding at the last minute a year ago , was recently in Ireland with new lover Jason Patric . |
| 16 | The EC sought co-operation against drug traffickers , and Mexico was reported to have inserted at the last minute a formula to safeguard its national jurisdiction in this area . |
| 17 | There were a number of girls in the party and at the last minute the female teacher who was to chaperone them dropped out . |
| 18 | At the last minute the parent would abandon its charade and fly off to safety . |
| 19 | However , at the last minute the selectors have restored Little to inside centre and picked Fox and Steve Bachop as the fly-halves , very likely on the basis they are much more accurate punters than Little . |
| 20 | ‘ However , at the last minute the chance of this Granada Christmas party came up . |
| 21 | Cheryl Wragg , 34 , was airlifted 150 miles for the operation , just weeks after 10-year-old Adele 's appeal , only to be told at the last minute the lungs were unsuitable . |
| 22 | At the last minute the convention 's keynote speaker for Sunday 26 April was taken ill , and her replacement turned out to be Mr John Frohnmayer , the dismissed chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts who , although not scheduled to leave his post officially until a few days later , had actually worked his last day the previous Friday . |
| 23 | Although the child is still alive , at the last minute the surgeon refuses to operate . |
| 24 | ( The queen had been due to visit Iran in the royal yacht Britannia in January 1979 ; at the last minute the trip was cancelled because of the turmoil in Iran and the queen sent the Shah a gracious and sympathetic handwritten note of regret ) . |
| 25 | But at the last minute the Town board played their cards … and persuaded Gorman to stay on and take over |
| 26 | Up to the last minute the enormous problems of ammunition supply to the guns had not been overcome . |
| 27 | But City are prone to concede goals in the last quarter of an hour and bang on the 75th minute the impressive young Dodd fed a wonderful 30-yard pass to Rod Wallace , who held off two defenders to equalise . |
| 28 | In the 21st minute the Dungannon side at last found a way through the determined Ards defence . |
| 29 | But the men gave way , because they had no choice , and the next minute the car had bounced out on to the road , turning left , away from the village and up towards the dale head . |
| 30 | The next minute the grenade thrower appeared with his hands up . |