Example sentences of "took [adv] [adj] minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT TOOK perhaps two minutes for Glenn Miller to line up his shot . |
| 2 | Precooked honey roast half Lincolnshire duckling took only four minutes from frozen using full power . |
| 3 | The basic long dress took only fourteen minutes to make , yet none among this motivated workforce considered they were overworked , nor in any way exploited . |
| 4 | It took only two minutes of lying stretched and rigid on his bed for Alex Mair to realize that sleep was unlikely to come . |
| 5 | It took only eight minutes for Portadown to take the lead . |
| 6 | WORLD champion Stephen Hendry was in a hurry in Blackpool yesterday as he took only 58 minutes to reach the fourth round of the £140,000 Regal Welsh Open . |
| 7 | Hendry took only 52 minutes to complete a 5-0 victory over Dave Finbow , of Worcester , who is ranked at No63 . |
| 8 | It took only fifteen minutes before she was removing her bulbous black space helmet outside the house on avenue Foch . |
| 9 | The former Repton schoolboy took only 57 minutes to reach three figures in Derbyshire 's Britannic Assurance Championship match at Worcester , three minutes quicker than Stan Worthington 's previous-best , against Notts in 1933 . |
| 10 | The judges took only 80 minutes to decide the level of fines after ruling the journalists had breached the strict provisions of the 1981 Contempt of Court Act . |
| 11 | Her 6–2 6–3 drubbing of Turkish No 1 Ismet-Duygu Aksit took only 55 minutes , and meant she had surrendered only 20 games in her five qualifying matches . |
| 12 | Fifty minutes later he had 53 from 35 balls , and thirty-one minutes after that , from another 21 balls , he had 103 ; the fastest century in terms of balls received in the history of Test cricket , 56 balls to Jack Gregory 's 67 against South Africa in 1921–2 , although Gregory took only 70 minutes while Richards took 81 minutes . |
| 13 | Cambridge took only three minutes to take the lead through Matts Decker , a German engineering student . |
| 14 | ‘ It took only 40 minutes to get there which is quite satisfactory . |
| 15 | It took only 40 minutes to get there which is quite satisfactory . |
| 16 | The home side resumed their second innings on the final day needing 33 more runs to win with five wickets in hand , and Rutherford and Tony Blain took only 29 minutes to reach the target of 201 . |
| 17 | It took only ten minutes to get from the Hatton 's flat to Bailey Street where , at number ten , Jack Pertwee lived with his widowed father . |
| 18 | It took only ten minutes of private weeping , however , to clear her head . |
| 19 | The walk took only ten minutes and this allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cosy corner devouring one book after another . |
| 20 | The raid however took only ten minutes and the thieves escaped undetected after sawing through iron bars on a basement window to enter , removing the eight works and fleeing in time to avoid the police cordon flung round the city . |
| 21 | The magistrates took only ten minutes to decide to make an order that 2,235 pounds should be returned to Gardiner . |
| 22 | According to the report , if BBC TV took just two minutes of commercials per hour , it could earn £334 million by the end of the decade . |
| 23 | CARLISLE 'S George Oghani took just two minutes to hit the back of the net . |
| 24 | The judge , who took just 45 minutes to decide on the sentences , said he accepted Fraser was a drug addict who had admitted what he had done . |
| 25 | Pitching : on one wild and windy night it took just five minutes to put up the inner . |
| 26 | The tour took just 15 minutes — and then came the moment on which Lynsey 's destiny hinged . |
| 27 | Manhandling the aeroplane down the slipway on an old flat-bed trolley , five of us took just twenty minutes to get the big beast bobbing happily on the briny . |
| 28 | Indeed , the only good thing about their confrontation against Sukova and Novotna is that it took just 50 minutes to complete , with the established Czech combination sweeping to a 6-2 , 6-2 victory and a place in the semi-finals against the United States . |
| 29 | The second set took just 24 minutes as Ivanisevic lost only four points on serve , banged down eight aces and broke Sampras 's serve twice . |
| 30 | Thus , whereas more than half of the straightforward deliveries of ‘ ordinary ’ books were made within 10 minutes , in the case of early or rare books only 45% of straightforward deliveries from the Main Building took under 20 minutes , and nearly half ( 47% ) took more than 35 minutes . |