Example sentences of "[coord] twenty minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should have fifteen or twenty minutes clear before the other Doyle gets back . |
| 2 | Now , Eleanor Thorne was eighty-nine years old , and her conversation was erratic , but Dorothea still sat with her , and for the odd fifteen or twenty minutes , and sometimes as long as an hour , they would talk , as they had always done and the present world swung temporarily into focus for the old lady , and she held on to it , like a crystal ball , firmly in her hand . |
| 3 | The diagnosis of gonorrhoea in man can thus be confirmed in the majority of cases within the time it takes to stain and examine a slide of urethral discharge from the penis — a matter of some fifteen or twenty minutes . |
| 4 | It can not totally replace exercise , but it is in fact the same in body stimulation terms as a good massage or twenty minutes of jogging ! |
| 5 | He commented that if the process was to have practical importance ‘ we would have to find a different catalysing particle which has properties similar to the muon but has a lifetime of at least ten or twenty minutes . ’ |
| 6 | The emerging calculations implied that muon catalysed fusion would not release as much energy as was needed to create the muons ; even if the muon were as stable as Alvarez 's ‘ ten or twenty minutes ’ the sticking makes the useful production of energy out of reach . |
| 7 | Practice daily for fifteen or twenty minutes and you will then find that this word can be an effective means of blocking out unwanted thoughts and relaxing the body . |
| 8 | Daphne tended to phone her just after six , which meant missing fifteen or twenty minutes of the news , but Cecilia never said anything about this because she would far rather miss the news than hurt Daphne . |
| 9 | If a seller had been ringing for fifteen or twenty minutes before the phone was even answered , he would naturally resent this ultimate insult . |
| 10 | Well I suppose at the , one of the best things , best examples of the difference was that my wife when she saw this house , knew that it was a house in which she could be happy , in which her tastes and , could spread themselves , erm rather than her tastes having to be curtailed by lack of space and lack of accommodation , erm , the fact that I had a garage which was essential er next to my house instead of some er quarter or twenty minutes ' walk away from where I lived as happened in London also made a terrific difference to comfort , erm the fact that there was a garden instead of a few windowboxes and a couple of tubs , all these things I think made one appreciate the fact that you 'd come , not only into a new town , but into a new way of life probably the fact that we had a staircase inside the house , which was the first time that we 'd had a staircase between our bedrooms and our living rooms |
| 11 | because I 'm charged exactly the same whether I 'm there for three hours or twenty minutes ! |
| 12 | He said his wife was probably out of the room for about fifteen or twenty minutes . |
| 13 | It will be the usual exhaustive ballot procedure and if the first vote does not give an overall majority to one of the candidates there will be an adjournment for fifteen or twenty minutes in the same room to give candidates the opportunity to withdraw . |
| 14 | SUMMERCHILD : Oh , about fifteen or twenty minutes . |
| 15 | Yeah a lot of people do that , they , I mean , go on the train shopping do n't they , I know a lot of people who are and I would rather sit ten minutes or twenty minutes . |
| 16 | It was a matter of very small beginnings for everybody , and then as the pictures that they made became more and more popular , more and more acceptable , used not merely in fairgrounds or in odd corners of shops and this sort of thing , for the odd fifteen minutes or twenty minutes of movie , but entered into the music halls , became one of the acts in the music hall entertainment erm this really was the foundation of a new industry , a new industry of entertainment , a new industry of information . |
| 17 | Not only was it a Test Match victory more substantial than any before , but Hutton 's 364 scored in thirteen hours and twenty minutes was the most remarkable exhibition of concentration and endurance ever seen on a cricket field . |
| 18 | Just outside Kos town , the Atlantis II is in a quiet spot only ten minutes walk from the discos and twenty minutes to the town centre and there are also a few bars and restaurants nearby . |
| 19 | Two hours and twenty minutes to live … |
| 20 | And twenty minutes past my knocking off time . |
| 21 | One hour and twenty minutes and it had slipped over the curvature of the earth , or so it seemed . |
| 22 | And it can get awkward when people take things too Literally — you say , ‘ Hello , how are you ? ’ and twenty minutes later you 're still listening to their philosophy of life . |
| 23 | In the course of this epic journey Sadler and his companion calculated that they had flown a distance of not less than 112 miles in one hour and twenty minutes . |
| 24 | Each session lasts approximately one hour and twenty minutes , and occurs initially on a weekly basis at the same time and place . |
| 25 | The most profitable lunch is an apple , a glass of water and twenty minutes ' fresh air taken with some gentle exercise |
| 26 | Anyway it took us an hour and twenty minutes to get there , it took us forty minutes to get home . |
| 27 | So then he gave them Visa , which he 'd hardly been using at all , and twenty minutes later they gave him a car . |
| 28 | And we had er two hours off during the day , er and twenty minutes for dinner and er about twenty minutes for tea . |
| 29 | Once inside , we sat through a fascinating short on turtle-trapping in the Galapagos Islands or some such thing , and twenty minutes of mouth-watering trailers and commercials . |
| 30 | ‘ Nine hours and twenty minutes to detonation . ’ |