Example sentences of "[noun sg] of a minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | It contained four sheets of paper closely covered in unfamiliar handwriting , and it was a measure of how relaxed he was that it took him the best part of a minute to realise that he was holding a copy of the letter written by Ruggerio Miletti to his family three days previously . |
| 2 | Not a conventional time-piece , this clock has a second hand only , recording each segment of a minute with solid , definite clicks . |
| 3 | This is very important and any attempt to argue about the content of a minute must be quashed by the Chairman . |
| 4 | We remained like this for about a quarter of a minute . |
| 5 | It was at least a quarter of a minute before anyone looked up , and there is little doubt that the word " elephant " appeared on the pages of these so-called notes . |
| 6 | The test model displayed extreme hyperactivity , and as curare was not immediately available ( and would , in any case , have tended to invalidate subsequent observations ) the more traditional method of a minute 's hanging was employed to subdue the animal . |
| 7 | Marshall and fellow defender Richard Jobson were both booked in the space of a minute for pulling down Shearer as he twice homed in on goal shortly after half time . |
| 8 | At one stage , fourteen planes touched down in the space of a minute . |
| 9 | Twice , in the space of a minute , Scott clawed down Alan Linton in one-on-one situations . |
| 10 | If the unit is situated in a centrally heated room where the temperature is thermostatically controlled , accuracy of a minute or two per day may be expected . |
| 11 | Clearly radical ideas were the property of a minute minority : in 1793 the people listened , not to French agents , but to friars preaching a crusade against atheism . |
| 12 | She remembered the time only three days previously when the Senior Scientific Officer of the instrument section bad let her look into the giant scanning electron microscope and watch the image of a minute pill of putty burst instantaneously into an exotic incandescent flower . |
| 13 | He has offered madness in the form of a minute ; she has accepted it in the form of an examination answer . |
| 14 | The receiver is so powerful that it can only be a matter of a minute or two at the outside before the signal is received . |
| 15 | Very commendable , I 'm sure , Leith , having no liking for Naylor Massingham , was thinking sourly when suddenly , as if thinking over their conversation of a minute ago , Travis started to look alarmed . |