Example sentences of "minutes at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally I only Listened for the first couple of minutes at a reading ; either I am preoccupied by having to read later myself , or some image causes my mind to drift away ; but N'dosi had a powerful , hypnotic voice and his poetry sparkled with fresh , delightful metaphors . |
| 2 | A universal assay technology — called electro-rotation assay ( ERA ) — is capable of delivering accurate results in a matter of minutes at a fraction of the cost of existing diagnostic systems , its developer , Scientific Generics , claims . |
| 3 | The International Atomic Energy Agency requires flasks used for transporting spent fuel to be designed to survive the impact of a 9-m fall — equivalent to an impact of 30 mph — and to survive being engulfed by fire for 30 minutes at a temperature of 800 deg . |
| 4 | He knew the details of ident laws and rationing for every country in Europe , he had mastered Dutch and French , and he still could not get a pipe to burn for more than three minutes at a stretch . |
| 5 | - People start using the curious phrase ‘ Indian Summer ’ if the sun stays out for more than 10 minutes at a time . |
| 6 | Classic FM , a consortium led by GWR Group , a local radio-station owner , plans to offer ‘ classical music in a pop format , ie , no more than 45 minutes at a time ’ . |
| 7 | Although Frankie had been dozing , he was too hungry to sleep for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 8 | The tables and the chairs , the cups and the spoons , the stains on the wall , the dust on the floor , the ache in my mind — all these things and everything else in sight mercifully receded for whole minutes at a time as my eyes took in the picture of that girl with the black hair , the pale face and the red boots . |
| 9 | Freezers and immersion heaters will be switched off for no more than 15 minutes at a time during peak-load periods . |
| 10 | Now , for just a few minutes at a time , focus on this image — and stir in desire . |
| 11 | Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs . |
| 12 | Ipswich have used the new rolling substitutes rule to their advantage this season but it often means that the first choice players are only off the pitch for five or ten minutes at a time . |
| 13 | At the end of one week she discovered that he rocked , on average , for 45 minutes at a time . |
| 14 | This baseline showed that on average Lindsay picked her nose three times per hour for 2 ½ minutes at a time . |
| 15 | TOWARDS the end of her life my mother was in hospital , a victim of Alzheimer 's Disease , a severe diabetic , unable to walk and increasingly unable to remain conscious for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 16 | She told of one man who was harangued for ninety minutes at a time until he had a nervous breakdown and quit . |
| 17 | Young had spent all day here , moseying between the three-room Mayfair hotel suite , talking for 40 minutes at a time to every journalist lined up to see him . |
| 18 | These played for only a few minutes at a time . |
| 19 | Part of her emotional training included learning to sit unblinking in a chair for ten minutes at a time . |
| 20 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 21 | All she knew was that she was cold and hungry and thirsty , that she had not slept for more than few minutes at a time and that all her thoughts were with Tristram . |
| 22 | A minnow , called the satinfin shiner , purrs , the cod grunts , while the haddock 's love song resembles a motorbike and it will keep up its unmelodious call for 20 minutes at a time . |
| 23 | A breathless , pervasive sense of heat possessed her body at every return of the memory and she was unable to remain settled and at ease in her seat for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 24 | His brother Gawain ignored him , gazing at the salt cellar or the window for minutes at a time and stolidly chewing . |
| 25 | He 'll cry long and hard , and though you can soothe him for a few minutes at a time , hours can pass without you ever really silencing the cries . |
| 26 | How can I get them doing any more interesting work if they ca n't concentrate for more than ten minutes at a time ? |
| 27 | ‘ Because I 'm a flibbertigibbet Gemini , unable to settle to any one thing for longer than two minutes at a time , ’ Candy returned comfortably , ‘ whereas you , my darling Rory , are a luxury-loving Leo . ’ |
| 28 | That she 'd lost the ability to concentrate on anything longer than two minutes at a time ? |
| 29 | About an hour after we 'd left Sudbury we stopped briefly for under five minutes at a place called Cartier and then went on again . |