Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] minutes [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes work on both reins Skipper was going forward , with his brain between his ears . |
| 2 | The resultant online , interactive database is designed to be so easy to use that after a few minutes practice even novices can make very sophisticated searches and will have nearly instantaneous access to a vast storehouse of information hitherto accessible only after tedious , time-consuming and costly searches through individual issues . |
| 3 | No , I wa I was , er er I I was thinking anyway , that it was n't exactly like that , it 's more like a Forty Minutes type thing . |
| 4 | There is the whole of the Brixen and Sperten valleys to explore , and it is about a ninety minutes walk to Kitzbuhel . |
| 5 | The Thermai is only 80 metres from the centre of town and both Old Rhodes Town and the nightlife are within a few minutes walk . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There 's a cosy hotel bar and although there 's no restaurant in the hotel , there are many good establishments within a few minutes walk . |
| 8 | Although there 's no restaurant in the hotel , there are plenty of good establishments within a few minutes walk . |
| 9 | As one child remembered it before 1914 : ‘ Suburbia was a railway state … a state of existence within a few minutes walk of the railway station , a few minutes walk of the shops , a few minutes walk of the fields . ’ |
| 10 | The Sigma 38 Panda Nova sailed by Derek Matthews from the Royal Dee Yacht Club completed the trip in just over 11 hours and was declared the winner of Class A on corrected times by an eight minutes margin ahead of Alec Rawlinson 's Pellegrina . |