Example sentences of "and [prep] [adj] minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | So for a minute you have obviously got a hundred and eighty words and for two minutes it 's double that amount . |
| 2 | She pressed her forehead against the cool glass and for two minutes she did not move . |
| 3 | Having driven thirty miles and for fifty minutes , he is forced to slow down for the first time . |
| 4 | Normally , the time is fifteen minutes , and for fifteen minutes it 's five fifty , so if you 've got a lot of hair , it 's quite coarse , it 's going to go on for several months . |
| 5 | ‘ Friends , enemies , Englishmen , ’ I began , ‘ hear now the claims of Scotland ! ’ , and for four minutes I spelled out what I thought they were . |
| 6 | And for five minutes I quizzed this wretched bird without getting a single chirp out of it . |
| 7 | Acid was perfused at a rate of 5 ml/minute for five minutes in eight subjects and for 30 minutes in 12 subjects . |
| 8 | They reached the shelter of the brick-built cainca far enough ahead of their pursuers to lock themselves in , and for several minutes the coolies milled around the building , trying without success to smash the stout wooden doors and shutters . |
| 9 | The doctor who appeared was R. E. Havard , and after five minutes of talk about influenza ( Lewis had rather a fondness for discussing symptoms man to man ) , they fell to some ethical or philosophical talk . |
| 10 | The lump on my head had lost a lot of weight during the night and after five minutes under a tepid shower I was n't feeling too bad . |
| 11 | David Ufland also tells how Minton on one occasion walked into a composition class and after two minutes left without saying a word . |
| 12 | ‘ The captain fed us bits of information about decompression and what to do , and after 10 minutes we were told we were returning to Birmingham because of a shattered windscreen on the aircraft . |
| 13 | He made it 6-3 with a 90 break , and after 52 minutes of tactical battling potted the pink for 7-3 and ran away with the next to go five up with six to play . |
| 14 | He made it 6-3 with a 90 break , and after 52 minutes of tactical battling potted the pink for 7-3 and ran away with the next to go five up with six to play . |
| 15 | I remember Malc 's rum punch days ( rum — and punch anything ) and his Yorkshire lad days ( 14 pints , a black pudding and domino puke ) ; now he 's matured to a steady G. & T. In the absence of Lucozade I order a Coke and Kenneth a beer , and after ten minutes of chat we leave for our appointment , promising to rejoin them later . |
| 16 | Four years ago I bought a secondhand Toyota 858 and after ten minutes instruction , I was quite happy . |
| 17 | Cabs were hard to come by , and after ten minutes of waiting in line beneath the hotel canopy he decided to walk uptown a few blocks and catch a passing cab if he got lucky . |
| 18 | Kicking downhill in the first half , Haslemere had more of the play and after 15 minutes took the lead through Stuart Whiston who shot home after a Paddy Eames corner-kick was not cleared properly . |
| 19 | With the midfield of Brock , Hatter and Isherwood constantly supplying wingers Willitt and Stokes , a goal was inevitable and after 15 minutes the latter obliged with a rifling shot over a stranded 'keeper . |
| 20 | In a study by Maltzman , Kantor and Langdon ( 1966 ) using a priori classifications of high and low arousal words , recall for high arousal words was significantly better than that for low arousal words both immediately and after 30 minutes , this highlights the sometimes counterintuitive capacity for artificial stimuli to elicit arousal . |
| 21 | The game was slow and low scoring and after seven minutes of the first half , Arena had scored only four points to the visitors ' ten . |
| 22 | They found the babies who were left for longer began to make crawling movements towards the breast after 20 minutes , and after 50 minutes virtually all had suckled correctly at the breast — and were more likely to breastfeed successfully as a result afterwards . |
| 23 | North rarely threatened and after 24 minutes the game was put virtually beyond their reach . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , I 'm so pleased , ’ Fabia replied , and after some minutes of speaking of Barney 's condition , ‘ How are you ? ’ she asked . |
| 25 | Once home , float their bag(s) in the tank , and after twenty minutes or so add a little tank water , repeating the process over the next hour or so until the fish have adjusted ( if necessary ) to your tank water . |
| 26 | The man was unconscious when his wife found him and despite 40 minutes of intensive life-saving efforts the man died . |
| 27 | Maurice Freeman grabbed a second for Nova and with eight minutes remaining Graham Murphy equalised to force extra time . |
| 28 | Eight minutes later Mary Logue equalised for Ireland and with twelve minutes remaining Sarah Kelleher saved Irish blushes when she scored from the spot . |
| 29 | And with five minutes remaining , United keeper Peter Schmeichel pulled off a magnificent double-save from Quinn and then David White to ensure victory . |
| 30 | ‘ You could install it and with five minutes of training you could use it . |