Example sentences of "few minutes a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If I feel that a particular patient is suffering from extreme tension and finds it difficult to relax , then I may suggest that , during the two weeks following the regression session , he simply practises a basic relaxation exercise for a few minutes a day .
2 ‘ Initially people think bonsai trees must be quite difficult to keep , but all it takes is a few minutes a day to see they are properly watered .
3 Every few minutes a man came in and called someone 's name .
4 Every few minutes a truck thunders down the strategic Salang Highway on its way from Hiratan on the Soviet border to Kabul .
5 Every few minutes a shell would swish over the rooftops to explode with a roar in the docks ; and more Syrian troops — nearer to the explosions and silhouetted against the sea — could be seen running beside the harbour wall .
6 In a few minutes a boy appeared .
7 After a few minutes a barman came in and asked everyone to move outside with the other hotel guests who had been evacuated from the building .
8 It 's a good idea to run your central heating pump for a few minutes a week in summer to prevent it from seizing up when the system is not in use .
9 Every few minutes a plate crashed to the floor .
10 After a few minutes a woman in a grey fur coat began to cross the street from my building .
11 DOZENS more East German refugees arrived outside the West German embassy yesterday seeking asylum and passage to the West , including some who missed by only a few minutes a train that took more than 800 of their compatriots to West Germany .
12 Every few minutes a train rolled in , as if from some inexhaustible magazine of trains beyond the horizon , and , sucking into itself a multitude and departing again , left one platform for one moment emptying — and the next moment the platform was once more filled by the quenchless stream …
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