Example sentences of "[conj] a few minute [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could train birds on the bitter bead , shock them , either immediately or a few minutes after training , and compare the biochemistry in the birds which had tasted the bead but forgotten the association with that in the birds which had tasted and remembered the bead . |
| 2 | As I said in an earlier chapter , the principle of speaking is not to go on for more than a few minutes without getting your audience to do something — applaud or laugh or raise their hands . |
| 3 | Although Frankie had been dozing , he was too hungry to sleep for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 4 | TOWARDS the end of her life my mother was in hospital , a victim of Alzheimer 's Disease , a severe diabetic , unable to walk and increasingly unable to remain conscious for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 5 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 6 | A breathless , pervasive sense of heat possessed her body at every return of the memory and she was unable to remain settled and at ease in her seat for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 7 | Straining the last possible revolutions from her roaring Paxman engines , the old lady of the fleet , Vigilant was first to reach Guiding Lights , but despite darkness and mist had to wait no more than a few minutes for the other cutters to join her — a feat of seamanship that later lead to great praise from their Investigation colleagues ashore . |
| 8 | You 've got as long as it , it takes but it wo n't take , I should think , more than a few minutes for each group er to do their presentation . |
| 9 | Modern scientists tell us that Bartley could not have survived more than a few minutes in the whale 's belly , let alone the half-day or more it took the unwitting sailors on the mother ship to release this modern Jonah . |
| 10 | If you do not like a coffee house you have lost only the price of a cup of coffee and a few minutes of your time . |
| 11 | After drinks and introductions and a few minutes of jangled smalltalk , as if the three of us were gods or apes or spacemen , Fielding did the bad thing . |
| 12 | She seemed calm and peaceful , and a few minutes in her presence soon cheered Mr Wolski up . |