Example sentences of "two minutes [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | At each visit blood pressure was recorded twice after five minutes ' lying down , a radial pulse being measured between readings , and blood pressure and radial pulse were recorded after two minutes ' standing . |
2 | The Soviet-US joint venture Telekos is now providing a voice-mail service in Moscow : according to Alexander Gromov , Telekos deputy director , the system runs off a computer installed at the Moscow city telephone exchange ; the mail box has two minutes ' memory for input messages and half a minute for output messages ; the subscription is 1000 roubles hook-up fee plus 2,300 roubles per month . |
3 | the convictions of ( 1 ) the person who took off his clothes in one of the fountains in Trafalgar Square ; ( 2 ) the persons who shouted ‘ Remember Biafra ’ during the two minutes ' silence at the 1969 Remembrance Day ceremony in Whitehall ; and ( 3 ) the person who painted the word ‘ Jews ’ in two foot high letters on the garden wall of a house occupied by a Jewish family , the father of whom had been a prisoner at Dachau . |
4 | At that hour , right across America , all airports ceased operations for two minutes ' silence . |
5 | The Indian team observed two minutes ' silence before the Perth Test . |
6 | The Oxford Union is situated right in the centre of Oxford , two minutes ' walk from Carfax , in St Michael 's Street , which leads off Cornmarket Street . |
7 | The Mill Theatre is on the Oxford Canal , two minutes ' walk from Banbury Town Hall and the Bus Station . |
8 | He drew the nut grove in the Lamonts ' garden and the surrounding countryside , especially the view over the Weald found within two minutes ' walk from their house . |
9 | The house is in the centre of the city , on the edge of the Park , two minutes ' walk from the best shops and the square where all the dropouts and drug-addicts meet . |
10 | It 's two minutes ' walk across the Park from the sombre baronial building where he has his office ; there 's no point in not living centrally now the children are away at school . |
11 | Greenacres Gardens , a new cul-de-sac development in Walthamstow , offers studios and one- and two-bedroom flats , just two minutes ' walk from Wood Street BR station . |