Example sentences of "[vb -s] a few minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody will mind if he just grabs a few minutes ' rest before he moves on — although rest , for Pavel , has become little more than a bothersome physical requirement with no spiritual element in it . |
| 2 | Every ceremony includes a few minutes ' silence in which believers can pray . |
| 3 | Though it involves a few minutes ' paperwork , a worthwhile exercise is to jot down your own personal list of pros and cons , under the headings : ‘ spending now ’ and ‘ spending later ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ It only takes a few minutes , ’ said one . |
| 5 | It only takes a few minutes to write yet receiving a letter out of the blue can mean such a lot to somebody . |
| 6 | The whole process only takes a few minutes , although to the distraught owners it can seem like hours . |
| 7 | After food is put into the mouth it takes a few minutes ( usually around five ) even to start having any physical effect in satisfying the hungry body . |
| 8 | Although it takes a few minutes for the body to send out any strong signals of satiety it is probable that chewing and swallowing movements do begin to send messages to the brain . |
| 9 | The island of Porto Santo has a regular air link with Madeira by a small Air Portugal plane which only takes a few minutes . |
| 10 | Once you know the volume and page of your statute in the main work ( or in the Continuation Volumes ) , it only takes a few minutes to find the annotations in the Cumulative Supplement and Current Statutes Service . |
| 11 | Last year for the first time we were charged £10.58 for an audit certificate — something District Audit assure me takes a few minutes to complete and is provided free of charge by most banks . |
| 12 | This whole process takes a few minutes . |
| 13 | But although it only takes a few minutes , life without thick glasses has a cost . |
| 14 | It only takes a few minutes . |
| 15 | It only takes a few minutes . |
| 16 | In others , such as the stickleback ( which we shall consider below ) it lasts a few minutes . |
| 17 | When I arrived ten minutes before her at one stop ( advance means a few minutes ahead as well as two months ) I found that two ladies in wheelchairs had positioned themselves at the foot of the stairs and were pleading with everyone to let them stay and shake hands with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 18 | When the prime minister arrives at the Palace for the weekly audience , the private secretary acts as host and spends a few minutes beforehand in conversation . |
| 19 | A naive bee carried to the feeder from the hive and placed on the food source will circle repeatedly after taking on a load of sugar water as if ‘ studying ’ the source , and yet when she returns a few minutes later she will be unable to choose the correct feeder colour . |
| 20 | Off he goes and returns a few minutes later with friend and a dirty great Roller , all pristine chrome and gleaming fenders . |