Example sentences of "[coord] a few minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could train birds on the bitter bead , shock them , either immediately or a few minutes after training , and compare the biochemistry in the birds which had tasted the bead but forgotten the association with that in the birds which had tasted and remembered the bead . |
| 2 | He had , however , an appointment to keep , and a few minutes later I had the table to myself . |
| 3 | If you do not like a coffee house you have lost only the price of a cup of coffee and a few minutes of your time . |
| 4 | At about 7.45 ( ship time ) , they heard a major explosion and a few minutes later a searing hot blast of gas roared over St Pierre and the ships lying off shore , capsizing the steam ship Grappler , and rolling the Roraima so severely that she lost all her masts and smokestacks . |
| 5 | It does n't take long and a few minutes trying things out could mean hours saved later and some useful space where you have used up some leftover yarns . |
| 6 | USA hooker Tony Flay had to be replaced following an ugly facial cut and a few minutes later replacement hooker Pat Johnson had his nose broken by a punch . |
| 7 | Ruth thanked him for his information and a few minutes later he raised his hat and walked away . |
| 8 | He went straight up the stairs and a few minutes later came down carrying a parcel of his things . |
| 9 | The Hotel Des Etrangers is centrally located about 250 yards from the Piazzo Colombo and a few minutes walk from the Via Matteotti . |
| 10 | The crew now wanted to abandon ship , and a few minutes later red flares were seen dead ahead . |
| 11 | She seemed calm and peaceful , and a few minutes in her presence soon cheered Mr Wolski up . |
| 12 | Puzzled , the girl went off , and a few minutes later a grey haired woman in black entered the cubicle . |
| 13 | Farmer Nash was n't at the market , and a few minutes later we saw his angry red face above the wall on the far side of the field . |
| 14 | A secretary showed me into an ornately furnished drawing room and a few minutes later Sir George came in . |
| 15 | After drinks and introductions and a few minutes of jangled smalltalk , as if the three of us were gods or apes or spacemen , Fielding did the bad thing . |
| 16 | He slipped off his white coat and a few minutes later he hurried from the centre . |
| 17 | Rachel found herself following him into the social club and a few minutes later when they were both seated with their drinks in the same window-seat where they had sat before she said , ‘ So what 's your connection with Conway House ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ That 's what we planned , ’ she agreed , and a few minutes later Cicely was talking of leaving for the hospital in half an hour . |
| 19 | Mrs Hobden went into the kitchen , and a few minutes later she came through the doorway carrying a tray . |
| 20 | Paul Reece stopped this one from Gray and a few minutes later , he prevented Goodman getting his second and Sunderland 's third . |
| 21 | Yeah , that 's , that 's when it 's hard she asks you the same thing again and again and a few minutes later , then half an hour later , then , then you think have you listened |
| 22 | In Rome a visitor can stand in front of a Baroque church , but a few minutes later , having walked only a short distance , may have plunged back in time to Antiquity . |
| 23 | Moreover , it was but a few minutes walk from the Junior School ( Roslyn ) , and only a little further from the senior school ( Westmount High ) to which Esther and Leonard were duly sent . |
| 24 | But a few minutes after he was launched into the speech he came to a dead stop , stared strangely at the gallery in silence , and could not go on . |
| 25 | The fight lasted but a few minutes , when the soldiers retreated before us for twelve miles . |
| 26 | But a few minutes ago I said I was dog-tired and hungry . |
| 27 | She can spare you but a few minutes , she says — ’ the dowager-duchess had in fact said no such thing ‘ — but will see you at once . ’ |
| 28 | The word cottage conjured up in his mind the Smiths ' dwelling ; but a few minutes later , when he saw what she had called a cottage , he realised it was far removed from the Smiths ' dwelling as Screehaugh had been , in that it was a substantially built house . |
| 29 | But a few minutes later , there was no mistake . |
| 30 | The Dormouse woke up and quickly began to tell a story , but a few minutes later it was asleep again . |