Example sentences of "a few minutes [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | From our site in Old College it is only a few minutes walk to Parliament House , where the highest criminal and civil courts in Scotland sit , and to the local Sheriff and district court . |
| 32 | ‘ The police station is only a few minutes walk away . ’ |
| 33 | The resultant online , interactive database is designed to be so easy to use that after a few minutes practice even novices can make very sophisticated searches and will have nearly instantaneous access to a vast storehouse of information hitherto accessible only after tedious , time-consuming and costly searches through individual issues . |
| 34 | They had they had a few minutes silence for him when he died down Framlingham . |