Example sentences of "within [adj] minutes [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fly half Jon Bland kept City going forward after the break with some long wind-assisted touch kicks and within 12 minutes he had landed two penalties to put City 10–6 ahead . |
| 2 | The farm stands on a spur of moorland on the northern edge of the forest , and within 10 minutes I had turned my back on the corduroy battalions of trees and was striding under a still , cloudy sky over tussocks of rush and coarse grass , with my face to the long , bare shoulders of open hillside that flank the winding shallows of the East Kielder Burn . |
| 3 | Within 10 minutes I had found a suitable love-nest at the Glasgow Green , some 200 yards from the High Court . |
| 4 | And within three minutes they were out of the house and into the car , and only then did Henry ask , ‘ What 's it all about ? ’ |
| 5 | Within ten minutes they were seated on either side of Livesey 's desk , surrounded by files and account books . |
| 6 | Alf , my friend asked the man if he could mend the chain and within ten minutes it was done . |
| 7 | I thought we might have trouble lighting it , but within ten minutes it 's reaching temperatures of six or seven hundred degrees around the periphery |
| 8 | I thought we might have trouble lighting it , but within ten minutes it 's reaching temperatures of six or seven hundred degrees around the periphery |
| 9 | They put their cases in the boot and within ten minutes he was leaving the outskirts of Brussels , heading east for Liège — the opposite direction to Bruges . |
| 10 | Within ten minutes he was on the move again but came towards me very fast and swam into the weeds that formed the roof over the hole where I had hooked him in the first place . |
| 11 | Within ten minutes he was back . |
| 12 | He liked their deference and he liked their gin , and within ten minutes he was explaining to them exactly how the daily supply of crosswords in a newspaper was maintained . |
| 13 | Within ten minutes you were in your bed , reading hand-outs on ‘ The Castles of Edward the First ’ and ‘ Medieval Festivals ’ . |
| 14 | Not within fifteen minutes you 'll to but at the end of this session you will be able to process how to tell us the five main points five main benefits of a certain policy . |
| 15 | Within fifteen minutes he spotted it again in his rearview mirror , lurking behind a large French container lorry . |
| 16 | Version 7 has mouse support , pull-down menus and dialogue boxes — within five minutes you can get to grips with most of the commands you need . |
| 17 | I stood at the front door and it was around my ankles , within five minutes it was around my knees , ’ said Joanne . |
| 18 | Within five minutes he had gone , leaving Edward to try to decipher the hieroglyphics of his prescriptions . |
| 19 | A drink was thrust into her hand and within five minutes she was being passed from group to group as though she were the prize exhibit ; asked numerous questions she did n't know how to or have time to answer ; told endless tales of this person or that person ; until eventually , somewhat bewildered , she ended up in the bar with someone called Patrick who began regaling her with tales of old Ireland . |
| 20 | Within twenty minutes we pass the base of one of these vast monsters . |
| 21 | Within twenty minutes I was usually home at Frenchay , having a meal with Caroline and the children . |
| 22 | Within twenty minutes he found himself minding the store , while Haynes slipped out ‘ for a few minutes ’ . |
| 23 | A real beauty of a goal from Les Robinson … there 'll not be many better than that this season but it 's quantity rather than quality that counts and within two minutes it was one-all … |
| 24 | The aircraft was seen by a reliable observer as it initiated its first overshoot ; within two minutes he had telephoned saying that the aircraft was only 50m above the ground and heading south . |
| 25 | ‘ Within four minutes he asked me out to dinner . |
| 26 | That gave Arsenal the initiative and within seven minutes they went further ahead . |
| 27 | Having released two singles — ‘ June ’ — and ‘ Childhood Revisited ’ — in the late eighties on an independent label — Ashanti recorded a demo containing a song called ‘ Real World ’ , which was despatched to Polygram and , according to Boyd , ‘ within 20 minutes they were prepared to make us an offer which , at the time , was as good as we could get . |