Example sentences of "[adv] a minute [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were late starters in Italy ; we have only a minute presence , ’ Ribas says . |
| 2 | Benefits were low because only a minute proportion of copulations result in a reared cub in the next generation ( Journal of Zoology , vol 177 , p 463 ) . |
| 3 | Only ten per cent of the items in the Hatfields store were made from the tropical hard wood and only a minute proportion of those goods were made from solid mahogany . |
| 4 | For example , even in the relatively active period in which Liebowitz and Horowitz were writing , only a minute proportion of total crime could conceivably be attributed to marginal political groups ' expressing themselves in conventional criminal activity . |
| 5 | Art and unique objects are , however , only a minute proportion of the material world , and our ability to discriminate through perception is as pronounced for the everyday observation of fashion and cosmetics as in any appreciation of fine art . |
| 6 | Since there are few books indexed under " swords " , the " history of swords " searcher may well be prepared to look through them all ; there are thousands of books under " history " , and only a minute proportion will contain anything of relevance to this searcher . |
| 7 | X-ray diffraction ( XRD ) analysis ( see glossary ) is ideally suited to this sort of problem as it requires only a minute sample and , most important , it identifies the mineral or compound present . |
| 8 | If the surface of the earth was covered to a depth of one metre in protein molecules , each one different from every other one , and if each molecule changed into another one once a second , and had done so since the origin of the earth , there would have been time to try out only a minute fraction of the possible sequences . |
| 9 | ( One occasionally encounters a burst of inanity of Nobel proportions , as in this : " Our capacity for deceiving ourselves about the operation of the brain is almost limitless , mainly because what we can report is only a minute fraction of what goes on in our head . |
| 10 | And a haemoglobin molecule has only a minute fraction of the complexity of a living body . |
| 11 | Sometimes you will get a er a little bit offset with temperature but it 's only a minute thing . |
| 12 | ‘ Um — just a minute love — a hundred and ninety-four , good . |
| 13 | Just a minute love . |
| 14 | Just a minute love . |
| 15 | Just a minute part of the mass of aircraft present at Oshkosh 92 . |
| 16 | She took his arm , ‘ Just a minute sir , ’ said Steve . |
| 17 | Just a minute mummy 's talking to me . |
| 18 | Perhaps more revealingly , he is also consistently godlike on Radio 4 's Just A Minute programme , where participants have to talk for a minute without repetition or hesitation . |
| 19 | Just a minute darling it 's alright I can afford to buy you a packet of Polos . |
| 20 | Just a minute darling let Grandma look . |
| 21 | Get her back on or she 's not having this I 'm sorry about that hang on just a minute block your ears I 'm just going to spin round again okay hang on oops er are you their Rachael are you there ? |
| 22 | Just a minute sweetie . |
| 23 | Well just a minute daddy 'll be here soon and you can have some . |
| 24 | There 's also a minute minder and alarm to tell you when everything is ready . |
| 25 | Danny , come here a minute love . |
| 26 | A few years ago a minute fossil only about 2 mm long was recovered from limestones of Ordovician age , and christened Janospira . |