Example sentences of "but [art] few minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Rome a visitor can stand in front of a Baroque church , but a few minutes later , having walked only a short distance , may have plunged back in time to Antiquity . |
| 2 | Moreover , it was but a few minutes walk from the Junior School ( Roslyn ) , and only a little further from the senior school ( Westmount High ) to which Esther and Leonard were duly sent . |
| 3 | But a few minutes after he was launched into the speech he came to a dead stop , stared strangely at the gallery in silence , and could not go on . |
| 4 | The fight lasted but a few minutes , when the soldiers retreated before us for twelve miles . |
| 5 | But a few minutes ago I said I was dog-tired and hungry . |
| 6 | She can spare you but a few minutes , she says — ’ the dowager-duchess had in fact said no such thing ‘ — but will see you at once . ’ |
| 7 | The word cottage conjured up in his mind the Smiths ' dwelling ; but a few minutes later , when he saw what she had called a cottage , he realised it was far removed from the Smiths ' dwelling as Screehaugh had been , in that it was a substantially built house . |
| 8 | But a few minutes later , there was no mistake . |
| 9 | The Dormouse woke up and quickly began to tell a story , but a few minutes later it was asleep again . |
| 10 | He turned to talk to me , but a few minutes later Ben was arguing about another of Will 's plays . |
| 11 | It will be but a few minutes , ch'un tzu . ’ |
| 12 | But a few minutes later he heard the rattle of heavy rain on the loose corrugated iron sheet hiding the way in , felt the first trickle of water crawling down the floor , and then remembered how long this place took to drain . |
| 13 | But a few minutes later they said they had detained the wrong woman and the real suspect was still at large . |
| 14 | He was reading a newspaper , but every few minutes he looked up from it , to talk to me . |