Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] a few minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amused speculation on whether the new vicar could really be casting lustful glances at the choir-mistress produced an effective antidote to the emotional tension a few minutes earlier . |
| 2 | After that very public proposal a few minutes ’ privacy are definitely called for . ’ |
| 3 | I had three questions on this point a few minutes ago . |
| 4 | Police piecing together the events of Tuesday night have discovered that the killer had robbed another couple a few minutes before . |
| 5 | And came running back in stark terror a few minutes later as if all the hounds of hell were after him , and Preston , who thought they were , a half-length behind all the way back to the alley behind their two houses where they stopped to get their breath back before they went in . |
| 6 | The announcements made by the Minister for Overseas Development a few minutes ago about the food situation were welcome , but people in Africa are starving and the terms of trade that they receive in their dealings with the developed countries , the problem of their huge indebtedness to the developed countries and the world order over which we now preside are such that hundreds of millions of people live on the edge of catastrophe . |
| 7 | As I was struggling down the yard with the fully laden bucket a few minutes later a neighbour , Mrs Woods , saw me . |
| 8 | Black pepper is a proper and good inclusion , because stirring it in to a hot dish a few minutes before serving releases wonderful flavour . |
| 9 | Vaquero offers the city-bound reader a few minutes to escape to a time and place that we are losing ’ . |
| 10 | Three of her friends — also nurses — had taken the same route a few minutes before . |
| 11 | The crash of torrential rain a few minutes later set minds at rest . |
| 12 | Rachel walked out on to the main road a few minutes later feeling overwhelmed with guilt . |