Example sentences of "it was [adj] minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | I read the hands of the clock wrongly , thought it was 5.10 , and awoke with a jump , believing it was five minutes before the start of the marathon . |
| 2 | It was five minutes to eight when Yanto cycled over the low swing bridge on to the wharfs of Sharpness Docks . |
| 3 | Annie Templeman had been at the black and white ball for five minutes , and it was five minutes too long . |
| 4 | Then , remembering it was five minutes past tot time , he ran down the ladder to the well deck , and away to the spare-crew mess . |
| 5 | It was five minutes before he saw what he wanted . |
| 6 | It was five minutes before he stopped yelling , before he started to absorb the terrible pain that burnt through his flesh . |
| 7 | The Scotsman replied : ‘ Easy , it was five minutes slow ! ’ |
| 8 | The Scotsman replied : ‘ Easy , it was five minutes slow ! ’ |
| 9 | The Scotsman replied : ‘ Easy , it was five minutes slow ! ’ |
| 10 | It was 3-1 minutes later . |
| 11 | There were occasions , also , when the assistant on duty would forget the time , and suddenly realise it was two minutes to the hour and she 'd forgotten to do the observation . |
| 12 | It was two minutes later . |
| 13 | It was two minutes past midnight when he walked through into the Chapters Bar , where a dozen or so late-night ( early-morning ) drinkers were still happily signing bills . |
| 14 | It was two minutes to six that we |
| 15 | Position reports transmitted from the aircraft indicate that it was one minute ahead of flight plan times at 30°W longitude , one minute behind flight plan at 40°W longitude , and seven minutes behind flight plan at 50°W longitude . |
| 16 | We was I said look I can read a bloody clock as well you can , I said I wa walking behind you down the , you went in the canteen and when I went past it was one minute past quarter to ! |
| 17 | It was six minutes before Didcot attacked the visitors goal as Mark O'Hara shot into a crowded goalmouth . |
| 18 | When his dinner arrived from the trattoria — he had told her long ago he preferred their food to hers which suited her perfectly well — it was eight minutes late . |
| 19 | It was ten minutes past twelve when Yanto propped his bike against the wall of Bert Midgeley 's garage . |
| 20 | Already , it was ten minutes past their deadline and he knew it . |
| 21 | It was ten minutes before the stretcher came , and then the prisoners parted and allowed this one from their number to be taken to the opened gates . |
| 22 | My strap-watch said it was ten minutes off seven and that did n't make me feel any better . |
| 23 | It was ten minutes before she returned at a snail 's pace with four rum punches . |
| 24 | I think it was ten minutes . |
| 25 | It was ten minutes before they met . |
| 26 | It was ten minutes before he followed her , finding her in the kitchen apparently listening to a mid-Saturday morning news flash on the radio there with blank-eyed concentration . |
| 27 | It was ten minutes brisk walk to the Embassy , and he was waiting on the corner as Hannele approached . |
| 28 | It was twenty minutes later when the ambulance arrived . |
| 29 | She performed her task so well that it was twenty minutes before she brought him to a thundering climax . |
| 30 | It was twenty minutes before he terminated the interview . |