Example sentences of "[adv] a few minutes [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the temperature cooled down a few minutes later Gallacher headed to the referee 's dressing room to apologise . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps a few minutes more , ’ she answered . |
| 3 | At Godstowe Priory Dame Frances was only a few minutes away from death . |
| 4 | Somewhere below , only a few minutes away but in another world completely , she was running back to the house , Simon in hot pursuit . |
| 5 | Right in but it 's only a few minutes away . |
| 6 | A car radioed in only a few minutes ago . |
| 7 | Only a few minutes ago I felt a slight twitch in the boy 's calf muscle . |
| 8 | I hardly would — you told me only a few minutes ago . ’ |
| 9 | He poured the wine and Robyn gradually , inch by inch , moment by moment , found herself slowly beginning to relax , to actually feel comfortable in her surroundings — something she would have thought impossible only a few minutes ago . |
| 10 | And then , only a few minutes later , the knock at the door . |
| 11 | Jacob was not waiting there , but he put in an appearance only a few minutes later , beaming cheerfully . |
| 12 | It remained in place only a few minutes more , When the Commanding Officer ordered not only a change of the command team which had built it , but a change of design as well . |
| 13 | Scratches made only a few minutes before . |
| 14 | Dexter knew it was tempting to ask Lancaster whether he was lying and that he really meant that he could n't face the idea of seeing his wife again , a wife he had murdered and left a bloody corpse on the floor downstairs only a few minutes before . |
| 15 | I was silent for a moment , trying desperately hard to remember events that had happened only a few minutes earlier . |
| 16 | Tonight , only a few minutes earlier , he 'd been following handwritten signs down a service passageway to the toilets when , for one brief half-second , he 'd seen a local councillor emerging through the doorway with the head of a pig on his shoulders . |
| 17 | Her mother had checked on her only a few minutes earlier , and found her sleeping soundly . |
| 18 | Referee Jimmy Johnston had given a general warning about foul play only a few minutes earlier . |
| 19 | A neighbour who often did shopping for the Lennons had left the semi-detached in Heyford Road , Marsh Green , on the outskirts of Wigan , only a few minutes earlier . |
| 20 | He was only a few minutes late having been caught in traffic on a motorway . |
| 21 | For Golfing enthusiasts , there is the excellent BALLATER GOLF CLUB , just a few minutes away . |
| 22 | He says the victim was walking to her home just a few minutes away along a very busy street . |
| 23 | ‘ Seems like just a few minutes ago ’ |
| 24 | Granville emphasized just a few minutes ago , anything to do with the quality system is not a Moses job . |
| 25 | Just a few minutes ago Lou Macari left the court buildings with his wife Dale , and his solicitor Stephen Pollard , who made this statement . |
| 26 | Just a few minutes ago the ambulance carrying the two boys arrived at Stoke Mandeville . |
| 27 | Shrewsbury have got to make sure as much as possible when they do win the ball in the they do n't just smash long balls up , because as l as soon as they do that and as long as they keep doing that , Blackburn just pick up the ball again and keep coming at them , they 've got to try like they did just a few minutes ago , try and play themselves out of defence with nice low passes . |
| 28 | But just a few minutes later a playgroup worker found the baby lying on the tiled floor next to the pushchair . |
| 29 | Just a few minutes later French was released on bail pending an appeal . |
| 30 | A police spokeswoman said they could not confirm reports of a second bag snatch from a another woman 's car just a few minutes later . |