Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] a few minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just under half lived in the same household as the dementia sufferer ( 45 per cent ) ; most of the remainder lived within easy reach : 14 per cent in the same street or only a few minutes ' walk away , 20 per cent within two miles , ten per cent within five miles , and only 11 per cent further than five miles away ( although in Newham 36 per cent of the principal carers lived more than two miles away compared with only 12 per cent in Ipswich ) . |
| 2 | Some are quite a major commitment , some a small but regular commitment , others no more than an hour or even a few minutes of your time . |
| 3 | felt too tired to drive me on to ESF 's house , so I got there by bus , or rather by two buses ( an easy change ) , the first starting from about a hundred yards from and the other stopping just behind the Zoo by Primrose Hill and only a few minutes from Eduardo . |
| 4 | It works alongside a healthy diet and regular exercise and just a few minutes massage each day with Cellutherapie will help to stimulate blood circulation and improve the skin tone and texture on your hips and thighs . |
| 5 | This homely and very Tyrolean four-star hotel is close to the golf course , and just a few minutes from the resort centre . |
| 6 | But just a few minutes later a playgroup worker found the baby lying on the tiled floor next to the pushchair . |
| 7 | But just a few minutes the vicar arrived , and despite the Church 's apology insisted the crosses would have to go . |
| 8 | I 've nothing against these two teams , but to be deprived of the euphoric English faces after only a few minutes of joy and achievement was an insult . |
| 9 | After only a few minutes ' discussion , Hill and Branson agreed a transfer of the Sex Pistols ' contract from EMI to Virgin , conditional , of course , on the agreement of the group 's manager , Malcolm McLaren . |
| 10 | Nick and I went to see Canon Oates and we knew after only a few minutes in his company that he wanted to help very much . |
| 11 | And after just a few minutes the cold was starting to get through . |