Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a few minute " in BNC.
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| 31 | He examined whether a mispricing triggered index arbitrage transactions within a few minutes . |
| 32 | An air ambulance was on the scene within a few minutes , but Ranetta , whose mother arrived shortly afterwards , was already dead . |
| 33 | There is no evening meal , but there are restaurants and pubs within a few minutes walk including the Royal Hotel , an old coaching house , with an elegant dining room equipped with pianist , and also the Snooty Fox , a charming pub with attractive beamed ceilings . |
| 34 | My hon. Friend 's question speaks for itself , and no doubt we shall hear more about such matters in a few minutes . |
| 35 | However , the difficulties involved in providing a safe and reassuring environment for staff working with this group of people are one reason why so many professional staff still clamour to retain the old asylums ; in such asylums staff know they can summon help at a few minutes ' notice from a neighbouring ward and from resident medical staff . |
| 36 | She stood in the foyer for a few minutes , jotting into her notebook the things he had told her . |
| 37 | After release the pigeon circles a few times around the release site for a few minutes and then flies off , usually in the approximate direction of its home loft . |
| 38 | On 14 October Coleridge wrote abstractedly to John Thelwall that , ‘ I should much wish , like the Indian Vishna , to float about along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotos , & wake once in a million years for a few minutes — just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more . ’ |
| 39 | I suppose it came into my room for a few minutes to see a book I 'd been telling him about , then he left and I hit the sack . |
| 40 | The time resolution is excellent - the growth of maize seedlings over a period of a few minutes can be detected . |
| 41 | Learning by imitation can take place in a few minutes , whereas the reproduction of a whole new adult animal can take many years . |
| 42 | ‘ The presentation of the prizes will take place in a few minutes … ’ |
| 43 | Such increases in tannin in browsed Acacia nigrescens in southern Africa have been reported to take place in a few minutes and the production of ethylene during damage has been considered to be the promoter of tannin increase . |
| 44 | I 'll talk about the reservations in a few minutes , but the Lancashire Region supports any amalgamation initiatives with any union which is here in the country . |
| 45 | I 've got a meeting in a few minutes and I — ’ |
| 46 | Look , I 'm going to be snarled up in another meeting in a few minutes . |
| 47 | Is it likely that there are other pupils who may turn up in that room in a few minutes ? |
| 48 | " Ah , " he said , when almost out of sight , back in the depths of the room , not far from the small winding-stair he had entered the room by a few minutes earlier . |
| 49 | Naylor did not keep her waiting , but rang her doorbell with a few minutes to go before eleven . |
| 50 | Well I I shall leave you to go through the questions for a few minutes . |
| 51 | The body needs to be brushed once a day for a few minutes before your morning bath or shower ( twice if you have cellulite ) . |
| 52 | Chop and add to casseroles or steep in boiling water for a few minutes before adding to salads . |
| 53 | At five o'clock in the morning Ada Neumann would have been in her kitchen , simmering the dozens of doughnut-shaped rolls in hot water for a few minutes before baking them in the oven , glazing them with egg-white and then showering them with sesame seeds . |
| 54 | The bark starts them all off and they howl at the moon for a few minutes . |
| 55 | it sort of played about two or three minutes of music and then it went crrrkkkkkk for a few minutes , that 's why I kept hitting it . |
| 56 | Elinor said , ‘ I saw Sam for a few minutes , darling . |
| 57 | Andrew Beattie was allowed a visit by his wife for a few minutes around half-past one and for the first time he learned that no strike organisers had been arrested other than in the Rathcoole district . |
| 58 | In business they conferred with each other for a few minutes and then made their offer . |
| 59 | We stood eyeing each other for a few minutes and then to my amazement a jeep came up ; the farmer saw my problem and not only gave me a lift past the bull but took me right to the main road where the bike was . |
| 60 | However , there was a delay of a few minutes from the start of the experiment before the chicks ate their first camouflaged rice grains . |