Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in the FA Cup 1st Round tie at The Nest against first division opponents Manchester City and it came five minutes after half-time to put us ahead ; we went on to win 2–0 . |
| 2 | Oh it says thirty minutes on there . |
| 3 | Then , " No , it says 3 minutes " . |
| 4 | He dispatched a police patrol car , but when it arrived 16 minutes later the telephone was swinging on the end of its cord . |
| 5 | It arrived five minutes later when Glenn Hunter superbly headed in a Burrows ' corner . |
| 6 | It showed ten minutes past four . |
| 7 | ‘ I would n't have given odds on it lasting ten minutes , ’ he says of the programme 's early days . |
| 8 | It takes 10 minutes to reach the arch , slogging through the filth and scum . |
| 9 | Sometimes it takes two minutes and sometimes it takes twenty . |
| 10 | , Your aircraft is cruising at a TAS of 120 knots and you find it takes 47 minutes to cover the eighty nautical mile leg from Bembridge to Lydd . |
| 11 | It takes forty minutes to walk from Dhang station to the farm along a road which starts as a stony track then turns to mud . |
| 12 | Previously it had taken Ford 14 hours to assemble a car ; now it took 93 minutes . |
| 13 | It took four minutes to connect . |
| 14 | The Whitehall switchboard was a model of inefficiency as usual , and it took twelve minutes to try the various rooms and people who might know . |
| 15 | It took eight minutes , outside of the three minutes aimed at for a wait at ticket offices , but the charter makes no distinction or offer of compensation for that delay . |
| 16 | It took five minutes to establish the link , and for the operator to get out Delaney 's short message requesting an abort due to extreme winds in the drop zone . |
| 17 | A wizened butler opened the door to Topaz , but it took five minutes of heated argument before she was allowed to step over the threshold of Stone Towers . |
| 18 | But as it is as you say you know it took five minutes before it all happened in I find this very do n't you ? |
| 19 | It took thirty minutes for them to locate a frayed section of the Bridge ; force its weave apart with clamps and keep the gap open with plastic crates . |
| 20 | But it took 10 minutes to haul her out and attempts to revive her failed . |
| 21 | It took ten minutes of brisk walking to get my blood flowing again , my consciousness slowly returning from a journey beyond my body . |
| 22 | In the end it took ten minutes to get the Cambridgeshire police Land Rover turned past McLeish 's squad and their vans , and away back up to the stable . |
| 23 | It took ten minutes to reach Honey Cottage , with Yanto trying his best to scare the pants off Mary . |
| 24 | ‘ It took ten minutes to film and I was actually on TV for about six seconds . |
| 25 | Mr Jones , who was accompanied sub-officer James Gibson , said it took ten minutes to complete the rescue operation . |
| 26 | JB : There 's a bit of painting there on the wall that I rather like — well in fact I do like it , it took 20 minutes . |
| 27 | It took 20 minutes , four helpers , a Kama Sutra repositioning and the removal of one ski . |
| 28 | The incident last weekend happened just a few hundred yards from Bishop Auckland ambulance station , but it took 25 minutes for a vehicle to arrive from Durham City 12 miles away . |
| 29 | It took three minutes for a plain-clothes policeman to reach the booths , but all were empty . |
| 30 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |