Example sentences of "every [adj] minutes [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every few minutes a truck thunders down the strategic Salang Highway on its way from Hiratan on the Soviet border to Kabul . |
| 2 | Every few minutes a shell would swish over the rooftops to explode with a roar in the docks ; and more Syrian troops — nearer to the explosions and silhouetted against the sea — could be seen running beside the harbour wall . |
| 3 | Every few minutes a large solid mass breaks off and topples forward in a cascade of loose , glowing material , and comes to rest a few feet from the main mass , leaving a fading , sullen red glowing scar to mark the place on the flow where it came from . |
| 4 | Every few minutes a fresh fusillade of whirring bombs hurtles downwards to smash into the debris below , compelling the observer to stop walking idly around and take cover . |
| 5 | Every few minutes a plate crashed to the floor . |
| 6 | Every few minutes a man came in and called someone 's name . |
| 7 | Every few minutes a train rolled in , as if from some inexhaustible magazine of trains beyond the horizon , and , sucking into itself a multitude and departing again , left one platform for one moment emptying — and the next moment the platform was once more filled by the quenchless stream … |
| 8 | Every few minutes the guns would halt as some obstruction worked its way down the long column . |
| 9 | Every few minutes the cock tests the temperature of the mound : if it falls below 33 degrees Celsius he adds more compost , while if it rises above 33 degrees he makes a vent in the mound to cool the eggs . |
| 10 | and you 've got to develop the relationships so it does n't become ridiculous and you deserve , you 're disturbed every ten minutes every night of the week . |
| 11 | Every ten minutes an austere blouse steps into the gloom and calls a croucher forward to the cashier 's hatch . |
| 12 | On an acupuncture ward I watched a doctor insert long copper needles into the scalp of a one year old and saw the baby howl when every ten minutes the needles were twisted to stimulate the body energy . |