Example sentences of "minute ' [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United States had hopes of at least twenty-five minutes ' warning of a nuclear rocket attack . |
| 2 | We started house-hunting and found the perfect place on a new rural estate within ten minutes ' drive of the café . |
| 3 | Indeed , an international survey of old people in Britain , Denmark , and the United States in the 1960s found over 40 per cent of them living within ten minutes ' journey of their children in all three countries . |
| 4 | It has two bedrooms , a kitchen , a bath and inside lavatory , and one living room , and is within five minutes ' walk of the shops . |
| 5 | However , when the personal thefts were restricted to those which occurred within 15 minutes ' walk of the victim 's home , unemployment was again a statistically significant factor . |
| 6 | About 20 minutes ' worth of space-age special effects were created for the 1984 movie The Last Starfighter . |
| 7 | The First Deputy Prime Minister 's husband replied in his standard way , larding his lengthy answer with the typical verbiage of the langue de bois : ‘ I will answer you starting with a more general presentation of the mechanism of societal government , ’ he began , before launching himself on about ten minutes ' worth of the following : ‘ A principle of collective leadership operates in the Romanian socialist society … |
| 8 | Once ready , you 'll have enough steam power for up to 50 minutes ' worth of cleaning . |