Example sentences of "it [adv] [num] minutes " in BNC.
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1 | I had left it only twenty minutes earlier . |
2 | He might sit it out ten minutes just to annoy , but not the time it took him to fidget all round the place as he seems to have done . |
3 | and it about five minutes , five or ten minutes before we left off , actually been doing a great , getting a machine in Jack , we dropped in there for a cup of tea and er I goes in |
4 | Are we going to prepared to start that then , I 'll say we started , I make it , I make it dead on twenty five to now , but if we go by that clock , and if everybody goes by that one it 's probably easier , because that 's between twenty five to , so if we make it about eighteen minutes past . |
5 | You can have the heating on I 'll I 'll check it about ten minutes but if the hot water gets really , really hot then it 's the thermostat and |
6 | ‘ But I calculate it as four minutes . |
7 | Well wind it back ten minutes . |