Example sentences of "[adj] [num] minutes ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another five minutes ' walk and I find a slow piece of water that looks extremely chubby . |
| 2 | Hotel Trevi was some five minutes ' walk away in a quiet backwater . |
| 3 | This added two and a half miles to their journey to work and involved another 15 minutes ' travelling time each way . |
| 4 | The leader needs some four minutes ' advance to feel safe . |
| 5 | Here , they can combine a professional career with the joys of rural living : Richard 's practice as a chartered surveyor is an easy eight minutes ' drive away , just long enough to ‘ listen to the traffic reports and think of all those people on the M25 ! ’ |
| 6 | Combining a slimming diet with exercise , even that brisk extra thirty minutes ' walk every day , will gradually show satisfying results . |
| 7 | Indeed , it would have had to have begun much earlier , her grandchildren 's school being a good fifteen minutes ' walk away , on the other side of West End Lane . |
| 8 | On May 6 Mother and I went the full complement of floors up to the very top of Telecom Tower , there to shake hands with Sir Dickie and to share a shuddering scaffolding ( I almost said erection — but I did n't ) with Michael Aspel , one of my all-time four minutes ' warning men . |
| 9 | for twenty five minutes ' journey to Waterloo . |