Example sentences of "in [art] few minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moran was unassertive and attentive in the few minutes they discussed the game afterwards . |
| 2 | In the few minutes that he had been preparing dinner , the water drippng from his clothes had formed a pool round his feet . |
| 3 | In a political and administrative system as riddled with tradition as the British , the old model could , and probably will , be restored in the few minutes it takes a new prime minister to travel from Buckingham Palace to Downing Street . |
| 4 | Therefore , arbitrage can lead to the sale or purchase of very large blocks of shares , irrespective of the price , in the few minutes when the delivery price is determined . |
| 5 | ‘ You managed to organize all this in the few minutes I was out there ? |
| 6 | President , congress in the few minutes available to me this afternoon to speak to my written report I want to touch on three issues . |
| 7 | I 've got a meeting in a few minutes and I — ’ |
| 8 | Look , I 'm going to be snarled up in another meeting in a few minutes . |
| 9 | I 'll catch up with you again in a few minutes . |
| 10 | Inevitably they come straight down in a few minutes looking rather sheepish ! |
| 11 | He said , ‘ You 're down to lay the table in a few minutes . ’ |
| 12 | In a few minutes , six pages of Russian text had travelled from Riga to Moscow . |
| 13 | I made him understand that he was to stay where he was and I would return in a few minutes with a tin of tobacco . |
| 14 | If she was nervous it remained hidden and in a few minutes she had put each of the sisters completely at ease , their shame and apprehension gone . |
| 15 | A storm arrives from the west , the snow falling so thickly in a few minutes that I fear I will lose my way . |
| 16 | But it was no use imagining ; in a few minutes she would know everything . |
| 17 | Mummy will come back in a few minutes , wo n't she , for Susie ? ’ |
| 18 | He would be coming round to collect in a few minutes ' time . |
| 19 | Her fingers stroked my balls and her lips slid on my penis and in a few minutes , free to call her what I wished , I pulled her down and mounted her . |
| 20 | In a few minutes it was all over . |
| 21 | ‘ She 'll be here in a few minutes . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Mr Parkinson is with Sir Ewen in the big house , but he 'll be along in a few minutes , ’ Bob informed them after Maggie explained why she was there . |
| 23 | In a few minutes the same policeman forced his way through the mob to the gallery . |
| 24 | He sketched her deftly in a few minutes . |
| 25 | Journalists can digest a story from a good press release in a few minutes , while attending a press conference is going to take an hour , not including travelling time . |
| 26 | This striking result led to further investigations , and it was noticed that one drop of the diluted nasal mucus added to 1 c.c. of a thick suspension of the cocci caused their complete disappearance in a few minutes at 37°C . |
| 27 | I 'll be back in a few minutes . ’ |
| 28 | The happy landowner can then stand at the window smoking a pipe and wave cheerily at the unwelcome hill-walkers , secure in the knowledge that in a few minutes they will be heading back to the car , steam gently rising from them as they blink in distress from behind grisly face-masks of dung . |
| 29 | A wall goes down from the road straight as a die to Ease Gill and a walk alongside leads in a few minutes to a small hole in the ground that opens into lengthy passages below : this is Short Drop Cave . |
| 30 | Alum Pot is straight ahead in a plantation of trees and is reached on foot in a few minutes , arriving there simultaneously with Alum Pot Beck which enters the plantation and disappears into the depths . |