Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] for [det] minute " in BNC.

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1 Manning Jackson had been fretting for several minutes .
2 Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes .
3 The UK government measures the lead in tapwater that has been running for several minutes , as it would be if you had a bath in it , and not the first few pints or cupfuls , as you would use for cooking or making a cup of tea .
4 In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there .
5 She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening .
6 He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them .
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