Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] minutes " in BNC.
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1 | The excellent road system of the greater Belfast region means that Jordanstown is merely a few minutes ' drive from the capital , allowing students to take advantage of the social life and the living accommodation available in the city . |
2 | The excellent road system of the greater Belfast region means that Jordanstown is merely a few minutes ' drive from the capital , allowing students to take advantage of the social life and the living accommodation available in the city . |
3 | ‘ Perhaps a few minutes more , ’ she answered . |
4 | It takes only a few minutes . |
5 | I was silent for a moment , trying desperately hard to remember events that had happened only a few minutes earlier . |
6 | ‘ There 's only a few minutes left , they 'll never … wait wait , Steven has it , he 's come from nowhere and yes , he 's going for a shot ! … ’ |
7 | DOZENS more East German refugees arrived outside the West German embassy yesterday seeking asylum and passage to the West , including some who missed by only a few minutes a train that took more than 800 of their compatriots to West Germany . |
8 | It remained in place only a few minutes more , When the Commanding Officer ordered not only a change of the command team which had built it , but a change of design as well . |
9 | In total , Pippin and PJ spent only a few minutes under the lights and had a lots of praise and Bonios afterwards . |
10 | Her flat was only a few minutes ' walk away from the station . |
11 | Situated only 60 metres from the International Drive resort centre , the Famous Host International is only a few minutes walk from a great selection of restaurants , bars , and general hub that Orlando has to offer . |
12 | It 's set in its own park with beautiful rolling gardens leading down to the road which separates the hotel from its own private beach , yet is only a few minutes from the centre . |
13 | It was only a few minutes ' walk to her office in Aldersgate Street ; but she normally did not arrive there till nine . |
14 | It was only a few minutes . |
15 | A car radioed in only a few minutes ago . |
16 | One point to remember , incidentally , is that in those days all recordings were played at 78 rpm , so each side ran only a few minutes . |
17 | Showing no emotion , he remained only a few minutes before turning away . |
18 | Doors normally open half an hour before a concert or performance of a play but , when there are two evening performances , spectators may be admitted only a few minutes before the second performance . |
19 | If the skin is healthy , it takes only a few minutes for the molecules to be absorbed ; much longer if the skin is congested or if there is much subcutaneous fat . |
20 | The descent took only a few minutes , but then the man had to make a laborious return journey with the empty sledge , which might take half an hour . |
21 | Just under half lived in the same household as the dementia sufferer ( 45 per cent ) ; most of the remainder lived within easy reach : 14 per cent in the same street or only a few minutes ' walk away , 20 per cent within two miles , ten per cent within five miles , and only 11 per cent further than five miles away ( although in Newham 36 per cent of the principal carers lived more than two miles away compared with only 12 per cent in Ipswich ) . |
22 | As soon as the casing was in position at stage 2 , it was only a few minutes work to pull the cables through the casing and fix the capping . |
23 | After what seemed like several hours but was probably only a few minutes , we heard an aircraft approaching , and heads popped up all over the hut . |
24 | There is a generous provision for car and coach parking and the centre is only a few minutes walk from the train and bus stations . |
25 | Coventry is the home of several major attractions including the world famous Museum of British Road Transport located only a few minutes drive away near the city centre . |
26 | Only a few minutes ' walk from the Centre the ARC is a must for anyone interested in the subject of archaeology . |
27 | Moeri 's original procedure , of adding the chemicals to the second vat , would however have taken only a few minutes and would have left the reaction in no condition to explode . |
28 | The initiating processes in all these interactions are referred to as biological interface conversion processes and can be easily studied in the eye because contact lenses can be removed and analysed after only a few minutes ' wear . |
29 | The bride 's mother takes her seat last of all with only a few minutes to spare . |
30 | Scratches made only a few minutes before . |