Example sentences of "[prep] a few minute they " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes they passed the first of the estate workers ' cottages , two storey , stone-built , and around three hundred years old . |
| 2 | At first chicks peck at both food and pebbles about equally , but after a few minutes they learn the difference and thereafter pick up the food and avoid the pebbles ( especially if the latter are glued to the floor ! ) . |
| 3 | After a few minutes they were half opened and a middle-aged woman came and sat on the chair by his bed . |
| 4 | She lay back with a little thud and for a few minutes they were both silent . |
| 5 | For a few minutes they both remained thus , motionless . |
| 6 | For a few minutes they would wander along the rails and then , suddenly , as though seized with panic , they would hasten back to the safety of the group they had left . |
| 7 | For a few minutes they contemplated the grazing animals in silence . |
| 8 | Samuel had already arrived and within a few minutes they were joined by Neville Chamberlain , MacDonald told them of the situation in the Cabinet , and of his advice to the King . |
| 9 | The happy landowner can then stand at the window smoking a pipe and wave cheerily at the unwelcome hill-walkers , secure in the knowledge that in a few minutes they will be heading back to the car , steam gently rising from them as they blink in distress from behind grisly face-masks of dung . |
| 10 | Then in a few minutes they were gone and quiet descended on our yard — but not for long . |
| 11 | In a few minutes they were on a smaller road , with the lough in view . |
| 12 | In a few minutes they 'd left behind the head office of Chester Fabrics , driven past the fire-blackened fabric printing plant and escaped into the lush green countryside on the way back to Armscott Manor , the rambling Cotswold home of the Chesters for three generations . |
| 13 | In a few minutes they 'll have a car rush , as 90 cars race through the streets . |