Example sentences of "[adv] twenty minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then you came into this library to look at the books , spending perhaps twenty minutes here . |
| 2 | Perhaps ten , perhaps fifteen , perhaps twenty minutes passed . |
| 3 | I will listen to the band playing American dance music for perhaps twenty minutes , then I will walk back to the Hotel Europe . ’ |
| 4 | After a quick tidy-up they took the next train back to the Gare de Lyon where Monique had only twenty minutes to wait . |
| 5 | It is true , however , that 90 per cent of this fluid can be retrieved in only twenty minutes while we are lying horizontally . |
| 6 | Easily Accessible : The centre of London with myriad attractions is only twenty minutes away . |
| 7 | I got back to work , by which I mean that I got my papers and notes out , and then sat looking at them for what seemed like a dreary lifetime , and was really probably only twenty minutes . |
| 8 | Recommended by live letters of the Daily Mirror , comfortable family run guest house , away from the hustle of the town centre yet only twenty minutes walk to the conference centre , and two minutes walk to the seafront , situated in old worldy Kemptown , you will be welcomed by Hilda and Doug Beard , and be served a full English breakfast , tea making facilities are in all rooms also colour TV , keys are provided with access at all times , there is also free street parking . |
| 9 | It may take only twenty minutes or as long as two hours before they find the monkeys and are sufficiently close to them to launch an attack . |
| 10 | With only twenty minutes to go before kick-off we crawled into the Willowmead Stadium , our confidence uncomfortably perched on the gear stick . |
| 11 | No fewer than three railway stations offer a fast service to Paris ; and at night it takes only twenty minutes to drive from the town 's centre to the Etoile . |
| 12 | The Pizza Eater was only twenty minutes walk away from the flat . |
| 13 | I had left it only twenty minutes earlier . |
| 14 | Only twenty minutes to go then Ann . |
| 15 | The regression itself will last approximately twenty minutes — the maximum length of time the human mind is able to concentrate sufficiently to allow it to take place . |
| 16 | Er they actually took us to the petrol station to get more fuel and after a er five course lunch with the local farmer and his family er which was all very nice and er not too much wine of course as you can well appreciate erm we telephoned the gendarmerie and they came along and er closed the main road for er approximately twenty minutes and we took off on a road . |
| 17 | Christine Baldwin , the Whistler 's fifth victim , had exactly twenty minutes to live . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Skipton , just twenty minutes away , has a castle and canal . |
| 20 | This luxurious hotel of striking design is situated on its own beach and two inland lagoons just twenty minutes from Phuket Town . |
| 21 | He arrived back just twenty minutes before it was due to end . |
| 22 | do n't take long just twenty minutes |
| 23 | He died without remorse , writing his last ‘ Sieg Heil ! ’ not twenty minutes before the hangman entered the condemned cell . |
| 24 | In a nylon jersey house-gown of peacock pattern and iridescent colouring , which clung like a silk glove , she could not possibly be anyone but Mrs Paviour , that same Lesley who walked when the fit took her , last thing at night , and had been home twenty minutes when Charlotte rang the door-bell . |
| 25 | Police said 65-year-old James McQuaker left his house in Wellbeck Avenue at about 9pm to close and lock up the Haughton Road service station before returning home twenty minutes later with cash and credit vouchers . |
| 26 | Just under twenty minutes later , with Kirsty having won the contest easily , the two of them were heading downstairs to the breakfast-room . |
| 27 | Once inside the building , it took Myeloski nearly twenty minutes to find the officer in charge and determine that no word had been received by the Tobolsk police regarding their impending arrival . |
| 28 | The police are directed not to the Polytechnique , but to a nearby student residence , and do not arrive at the Polytechnique until nearly twenty minutes past five . |
| 29 | And er the sun can be as much as nearly twenty minutes slow or fast . |
| 30 | It took me nearly twenty minutes to talk her out of the loo , finally having to promise that Nevil was not a friend , that he would n't call the police and that there would be no need for Mr and Mrs Binkworthy to know anything untoward had happened that afternoon . |