Example sentences of "[art] twenty minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regular zander anglers will be aware of the common occurrence of the twenty minute feeding spell at daybreak and then it 's all quiet for the rest of the day . |
| 2 | Yes I know , but surely , you know , they could just slot in a couple of like the twenty minute , fifteen minute toddler programmes or something within the day . |
| 3 | Even in the twenty minutes it had taken to get some nourishment , the light had faded and the dull day was darkening into a cold night ; the beginnings of a frost crackled under their feet as they walked briskly along the embankment . |
| 4 | Plan every move carefully , for the twenty minutes of half an hour available to you will flash by , and seem like seconds . |
| 5 | He was thinking instead of the twenty minutes he had spent at home between a difficult hour persuading the voluntary organist at New End ( a retired primary-school headmistress who felt she was being taken for granted ) to continue , at least temporarily , and this service of compline at Quindale . |
| 6 | He said nothing for almost the whole of the twenty minutes , until he got up and carried his plate and cup to the sink and then said , as he left the room , ‘ I see . |
| 7 | The traffic had thinned considerably by now , and most of the twenty minutes of the journey were taken up by Carson calling at a late-opening delicatessen on the way . |
| 8 | In those days he came in with a His coachman brought him in the trap and they got the twenty minutes past seven express train to Glasgow . |
| 9 | Perhaps there was more than a grain of truth in the remark of one of his closest colleagues that Keynes ‘ had never spent the twenty minutes necessary to understand the theory of value ’ . |
| 10 | In the twenty minutes or so it took them to reach the outskirts of Mariánské Láznë , Fabia basked in the warmth of her happy memories of her splendid morning . |
| 11 | Erm I ca n't tell you what time he 'll be home really erm well say in the twenty minutes he 's bound to be home cos he he 's been home and then he 's had to shoot out again , he 's gone to get the battery so he wo n't be long . |
| 12 | At the next meeting a , a twenty minutes , yes . |
| 13 | And it only stopped once and that were at er unless it stopped to change engines somewhere , perhaps it would , but it stopped in Birmingham for twenty minutes and what a twenty minutes it were . |
| 14 | Now if you want to decrease the frequency , say at evenings , and you wanted a twenty minute service , you can see that you 're in all kinds of muddle . |
| 15 | It 's just literally about a twenty minute session . |
| 16 | Now we 're looking for tomorrow for about a twenty minute or so role play . |
| 17 | I told him there was some , I said somebody was interested in , well he 's got back in touch and he said can you come and do a twenty minute spot at this hotel in Bedford and he said really , I mean he 's doing it |
| 18 | Its got , its got er one the downward thrust , one for an angled thrust and one for level thrust , and its got a , they reckon its got about a twenty minute range if it takes off vertically |
| 19 | Right , but let's say that you 're not prepared to pop back , let's say that you 're sitting there and you 've got from that point , you want , you no want to go to the house , right , now you 're not you 're not gon na treat as a twenty minute call back , let's kill that for a minute |
| 20 | It 's about a twenty minute long band practice that 's about how long it usually bloody is . |
| 21 | Every twenty minutes throughout the proceedings a new shorthand writer came in to take verbatim notes . |
| 22 | The result is that the network only sends duff data once every twenty minutes on average . |
| 23 | Bacteria which normally divide and reproduce themselves every twenty minutes can also form themselves into environmentally resistant spores capable of lying dormant , even entombed in rock , for maybe millions of years before a change of circumstance permits their release with continued growth and reproduction . |
| 24 | And , every twenty minutes or so , a storm broke : thunder rumbled , lightning flickered , and tropical rain came crashing down from the showerheads fitted in the ceiling . |
| 25 | He 's phoning every twenty minutes to see if you 're back . ’ |
| 26 | When the Muni Mob and Jimmy Cagney had a gang war , they tossed in hand grenades every twenty minutes . ’ |
| 27 | This waiting was the worst part , creeping forward a few feet every twenty minutes . |
| 28 | The waiters do n't have menus , they come and shout at you and if you 're sitting ‘ upstairs ’ on the ground floor , as opposed to the much more plebby basement , then they turn the lights off every twenty minutes or so and all the diners have to dance by candlelight for two minutes whether they want to or not . |
| 29 | If you want an Italian restaurant where the waiters bring you menus instead of shouting at you , where they leave the lights on instead of turning them off every twenty minutes , and where they make you get up and dance before they 'll turn them on again , then do n't try the Vecchio Reccione , however convenient it is for Stringfellows . |
| 30 | The bus from Yonder to Tewkesbury ran every twenty minutes . |