Example sentences of "[det] than a minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate . |
| 2 | But the cylinders were so small they could not hold more than a minute of material . |
| 3 | True , this is on one of those detested and expensive 0898 numbers but I am assures that Directus keep the message as succinct as possible and that is rare for a call to last more than a minute . |
| 4 | It 's a whirlwind ride which rarely lingers for more than a minute on individual songs until we reach the '90s and the Zoo TV extravaganza . |
| 5 | The whole performance had taken no more than a minute , but in that time he 'd succeeded in turning the Chamber 's table into a fish-market gutter . |
| 6 | Any non-party candidate will have a very small chance of being elected and if , surprisingly , he is elected , he will have no more than a minute chance of exercising significant influence in the House . |
| 7 | But after a week of total failure to concentrate for more than a minute he had to acknowledge to himself that nothing was going right . |
| 8 | He shook his arm vigorously for more than a minute , but it was impossible to tell in the uneven twilight whether it dropped out or not . |
| 9 | Besides , he 'd never be able to sustain it for more than a minute or two . |
| 10 | He listened to the ringing tone repeated for more than a minute before he gave up . |
| 11 | And these hung still , though alertly braced , for more than a minute , while the torch he carried ranged round the interior of the passage , and leaked little sparks of muted light into the outer day . |
| 12 | When he had finished , she said nothing for more than a minute , but continued to stare at him , as if still seeking the assurance she had hoped his account would supply . |
| 13 | I did n't intend this to take more than a minute . |
| 14 | The death sentences were commuted at the end of 1849 , but only when the prisoners had arrived at the place of execution and been led to believe , as Dostoevsky put it , that they " had no more than a minute left to live " . |
| 15 | I gesture ( I imagine ) towards a chair on the other side of my desk and he sits down in an attitude which suggests that he intends to stay for rather more than a minute , and rather less than half an hour . |
| 16 | Yeah but just phone up and just be on for more , more than a minute , you know , would n't be so bad but you start hanging about . |
| 17 | Oh , that 's called a howler , that 's a howler , if you leave your handset off the hook for more than a minute , 25 seconds , or is it 60 I ca n't remember , for a length of time you get the howler . |
| 18 | CAFE Quick is a state-of-the-art vending machine which dispenses freshly cooked meals from frozen in less than a minute . |
| 19 | Café Quick meals take less than a minute to heat up |
| 20 | Less than a minute later it will be on its feet again as if nothing had happened . |
| 21 | Over coffee in the study Miss Danziger thanked the guests individually for their concern , apologised for interrupting their enjoyment of an excellent meal , and explained that so long as she came out of the spasm in less than a minute and a half it was not dangerous and left no ill-effects . |
| 22 | Taping the man 's mouth , hands , and ankles took less than a minute . |
| 23 | The engine leapt , shouted , and was tamed , and in less than a minute we had taken off from the little beach and were circling the island . |
| 24 | He moved the rest of the boxes in less than a minute . |
| 25 | If they were fed in manually , this would imply exactly the kind of task objected to by the unions — namely , a task paced by the automatic welder and with a cycle time of less than a minute . |
| 26 | He got into the van for less than a minute , then went back to his room , and Latowa drove off . |
| 27 | Less than a minute later noise erupted from the drawing room and excited voices drifted down the hall . |
| 28 | Rugby lead 16–10 with less than a minute to go but a try under the posts brought a defeat by 17–16 that in David Ray 's words ‘ … did not seem to matter ’ . |
| 29 | A personal computer with a single 66MHz 80486 will render a broadcast quality , full screen , complex piece of ray-tracing in less than a minute . |
| 30 | A personal computer with a single 66MHz 80486 will render a broadcast quality , full screen , complex piece of ray-tracing in less than a minute . |