Example sentences of "within [art] few minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unable to stop paddling for fear of capsizing , Tony and I can not put on our anoraks and within a few minutes we are soaked by the freezing combination of sea and rain . |
| 2 | Within a few minutes all the rigs had arrived and splashed in , and the earlier arrivals which had formed two- and three-rig rafts were crabbing across the river and pushing upstream to the bridge centreline . |
| 3 | He would usually appear in answer to the signal within a few minutes , for each sereno has a certain section to patrol . |
| 4 | Within a few minutes of galactosides being added to the medium , the genes are switched on , and enzymes appear . |
| 5 | I am hot and sticky from my drive , but the scent of lilac drifts in from the garden with the sound of blackbirds , and within a few minutes I feel much at home . |
| 6 | Within a few minutes , I am presented with a plate of cold meats , cheeses , breads and a salad of cabbage and herring in a sour-cream dressing , bottles of soda-water and coffee . |
| 7 | TO ARRIVE from London at Chesterfield station in Derbyshire — avoiding the gents ' toilet , where I have slipped up before — and then , after admiring the celebrated crooked spire , to find myself , within a few minutes , in the rugged landscape of the Peak , is an exhilarating experience . |
| 8 | The Thermai is only 80 metres from the centre of town and both Old Rhodes Town and the nightlife are within a few minutes walk . |
| 9 | Whatever mood you are in when you arrive at HCI 's Club Romantica … you can be sure that within a few minutes you 'll feel at home in this pretty village of chalet bungalows surrounded by trees and flowers . |
| 10 | Within a few minutes he had noticed a scruffy individual walk into the Oak public house , Stoke Row . |
| 11 | The Ministers and the Court dignitaries were on the platform to make their farewells , which the Emperor had insisted be short and restrained , so that within a few minutes of his arrival he and his son were on board and the train left to cries of ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ |
| 12 | Within a few minutes Elisa was on the settee in the sitting room where , at last , she regained consciousness . |
| 13 | On several of the meres I fish I can tell to within a few minutes when I will get bites . |
| 14 | Within a few minutes , the court proceedings were over . |
| 15 | That reminds me : I asked whether he 'd heard anything within a few minutes of seeing young Hamnett , hoping he 'd say a shot , of course , which really would have been too good to be true . |
| 16 | The airport fire service was alongside the wreck within a few minutes but there was little the firemen could do . |
| 17 | Unless the heart starts beating again within a few minutes the person will die , and in fifty per cent of all fatal heart attacks the victim dies within thirty minutes . |
| 18 | as if that was n't enough , Patrick Eggle himself telephoned within a few minutes to confer on the requested changes . |
| 19 | Within a few minutes of this treatment being given , he was able to button up his coat . |
| 20 | Eventually ( it would later be established it must have been within a few minutes of six-thirty ) the car slowed to a halt . |
| 21 | Within a few minutes she saw him riding towards her up the hill , his horse 's harness glinting in the sun . |
| 22 | A special intercom linking the theatre with the pathology lab means surgeons can find out the results of a biopsy within a few minutes to establish , for instance , if a tumour they are operating on is malignant . |
| 23 | The cat , delighted that its ordeal was over , burrowed under the covers like a furry hot-water bottle , and although Mildred had only meant to sit and get warm , within a few minutes her eyelids began to droop , and before long she was fast asleep — so fast asleep that she did not hear the door opening very quietly . |
| 24 | Within a few minutes I not only felt but heard the tissue in the sinuses beginning to break up , and by the time he had finished both were completely clear . |
| 25 | An air ambulance was on the scene within a few minutes , but Ranetta , whose mother arrived shortly afterwards , was already dead . |
| 26 | He also told them that a thin palladium wire , only ¼ inch in diameter and an inch long , had reached the boiling point of water within a few minutes , that the wire produced about 26 watts of energy per cm 3 , ‘ about four and a half times what we put into it ’ and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of palladium , destroying a fume cupboard and damaging the concrete floor . |
| 27 | Within a few minutes the basket was more than half full of food , and Mary was pouring the soup into the thermos . |
| 28 | ‘ Frankie would buy a wonderful new suit and within a few minutes he 'd look as though he 'd slept in it . |
| 29 | Female American jacanas may mate with up to four males at a time , sometimes within a few minutes , and then lay eggs in each male 's nest . |
| 30 | The dog should return within a few minutes , but if not , search in the direction where you last saw your pet . |