Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a few minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | These played for only a few minutes at a time . |
| 2 | The Doctor had watched the fight , without interest , for only a few minutes before setting off once again into the surrounding forest of knotted shapes . |
| 3 | Quick action is vital , since anyone who stops breathing can usually live for only a few minutes without help . |
| 4 | I had been walking for only a few minutes when I was surprised to see Miss Stapleton sitting on a rock ahead of me . |
| 5 | He was inside for only a few minutes and emerged very badly shaken . |
| 6 | Also in New Guinea are sympatric birds of paradise apparently dealing with fruit in a similar way , staying in the trees for only a few minutes , perhaps through fear of predators . |
| 7 | She could tell he was relieved to be let off the hook if even for only a few minutes , despite his words as they 'd come downstairs . |
| 8 | The car had been parked outside their home for only a few minutes before neighbours saw it being driven off by teenage youths . |
| 9 | The initiating processes in all these interactions are referred to as biological interface conversion processes and can be easily studied in the eye because contact lenses can be removed and analysed after only a few minutes ' wear . |
| 10 | John Rhead arrived and , after only a few minutes , we knew we had found a genuine birder . |
| 11 | He was alone for just a few minutes and I made my offer . |
| 12 | It seemed that I was asleep for just a few minutes when I was awakened by some noisy bastard shouting into the trench . |
| 13 | Now , for just a few minutes at a time , focus on this image — and stir in desire . |
| 14 | He 'd first appeared a few months earlier for just a few minutes . |
| 15 | For just a few minutes out there I was holding a real live flesh-and-blood woman in my arms . ’ |
| 16 | Maintaining that calm , uncaring façade even for just a few minutes had taken a lot out of her , and she felt the faint beginnings of a headache behind her eyes . |
| 17 | Now let me for just a few minutes , look forward if that 's not too presumptuous for a chair who is moving out . |
| 18 | and Clifford , no Clifford said , the lads to each other are we going out again dad you know cos oh Margaret was in , yes , and there was some other boys , the boy across the road was eating something and the boys said and Clifford said do you mind if I just sit in the chair and be quiet for just a few minutes and he just sat in the chair and had his heart attack |
| 19 | It was a matter of only a few minutes before the rebels reached the President 's quarters , and stopped to await General Bobo , who had made clear his intention to take over personally . |
| 20 | For instance , one could have a form in which special interludes have a natural place such as : There are of course many variants of such schemes , suitable for use in single-movement works of 20-minute duration down to short movements of only a few minutes . |
| 21 | you can get th I 've seen people spend sort of quite a few minutes going round in circles and give up on that when they 're nearly at the answer . |
| 22 | ‘ Seems like just a few minutes ago ’ |
| 23 | The bride 's mother takes her seat last of all with only a few minutes to spare . |
| 24 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 25 | She knew with total certainty that her imagination had n't been playing tricks , and that it was the second time in only a few minutes that she 'd heard those precise words . |
| 26 | Sometimes within just a few minutes of the arrival of leaf-eating creatures , the tannin content is up to levels which make not only the leaves under attack , but all the other leaves of the tree toxic or at least unpalatable . |
| 27 | In just a few minutes , the encoded gibberish on the computer screen starts to turn into plain English . |
| 28 | I took Oliver 's flowers , and fed them petal-first into the grinder , and in just a few minutes I had reduced his gift to a sludge which the cold water was washing away down the waste-pipe . |
| 29 | I stayed right where I was on the floor telling myself I 'd be fine in just a few minutes . |
| 30 | It is this incredible flexibility that allows us to juggle page layouts in just a few minutes and produce a fresh piece of artwork each time rather than wait hours , even days , for the re-worked page to come back from the artist 's studio . |