Example sentences of "[noun sg] twenty minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Dexter met the superintendent twenty minutes later , Blanche stood outside the Inside Out office still chatting to the security guard . |
| 2 | ‘ You do n't realize , ’ says Myra , Michael 's wife , from the far end of the sofa , ‘ the fantastic thing is that we went through all this scene twenty minutes ago , in the car on the way here . |
| 3 | You 're right , erm , certainly an exercise twenty minutes , is about time , special timescale , but again a bit more time , might actually . |
| 4 | Women at top right window twenty minutes ago . |
| 5 | According to the script , after an initial twenty minutes of Anglo-Saxon bombardment , the Turks would be weeping with fear and humiliation , and devoting much of their on-field activities to figuring out ways of being granted political asylum , rather than returning home to their doubtless murderous regime , where they would be summarily sent to work down the sewers for ten years . |
| 6 | I only went into the place twenty minutes ago . ’ |
| 7 | It had been delivered from the American Embassy for his attention twenty minutes earlier . |
| 8 | When he shut the door of her taxi twenty minutes later he leant in through the window . |
| 9 | I 'd hate to have kept you waiting a whole twenty minutes for nothing . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But on our wedding day , I arrived at the church twenty minutes before you . |
| 11 | Reaching to steady the ashtray , I spilt the coffee , and also hooked my elbow in the telephone 's lone dreadlock — so that when , with a final heroic convulsion , I burst out of the bed , the swinging casket somehow smashed into my shin and then dropped like a bomb on to the bare mound of my foot Twenty minutes later , by which time the pain had done its worst , I unpeeled my way through the sodden address book . |
| 12 | ‘ Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus and hurt her knee twenty minutes ago ? |
| 13 | We reach the port twenty minutes before the ferry is set to sail . |
| 14 | Harry took his leave of Ernie Love the following morning and presented himself at the Jubilee Clock twenty minutes early for his rendezvous with Nigel Mossop . |
| 15 | The room-service waiter appeared with their order twenty minutes later and prepared the table in the sitting room . |
| 16 | For the first forty minutes they were much more composed than the league leaders and fully warranted the advantage they took in the 13th minute when David Kelly headed home Lee Clark 's cross after a winning midfield challenge by Ranson , a stable influence on his younger colleagues before falling victim to a calf injury twenty minutes from time . |