Example sentences of "more than [art] minute " in BNC.

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1 I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate .
2 But the cylinders were so small they could not hold more than a minute of material .
3 True , this is on one of those detested and expensive 0898 numbers but I am assures that Directus keep the message as succinct as possible and that is rare for a call to last more than a minute .
4 It 's a whirlwind ride which rarely lingers for more than a minute on individual songs until we reach the '90s and the Zoo TV extravaganza .
5 The whole performance had taken no more than a minute , but in that time he 'd succeeded in turning the Chamber 's table into a fish-market gutter .
6 Any non-party candidate will have a very small chance of being elected and if , surprisingly , he is elected , he will have no more than a minute chance of exercising significant influence in the House .
7 But after a week of total failure to concentrate for more than a minute he had to acknowledge to himself that nothing was going right .
8 He shook his arm vigorously for more than a minute , but it was impossible to tell in the uneven twilight whether it dropped out or not .
9 Besides , he 'd never be able to sustain it for more than a minute or two .
10 He listened to the ringing tone repeated for more than a minute before he gave up .
11 And these hung still , though alertly braced , for more than a minute , while the torch he carried ranged round the interior of the passage , and leaked little sparks of muted light into the outer day .
12 When he had finished , she said nothing for more than a minute , but continued to stare at him , as if still seeking the assurance she had hoped his account would supply .
13 I did n't intend this to take more than a minute .
14 The death sentences were commuted at the end of 1849 , but only when the prisoners had arrived at the place of execution and been led to believe , as Dostoevsky put it , that they " had no more than a minute left to live " .
15 I gesture ( I imagine ) towards a chair on the other side of my desk and he sits down in an attitude which suggests that he intends to stay for rather more than a minute , and rather less than half an hour .
16 Yeah but just phone up and just be on for more , more than a minute , you know , would n't be so bad but you start hanging about .
17 Oh , that 's called a howler , that 's a howler , if you leave your handset off the hook for more than a minute , 25 seconds , or is it 60 I ca n't remember , for a length of time you get the howler .
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