Example sentences of "[be] a few minutes [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | What will be a few minutes of footage on the screen took all day to film . |
2 | There were a few minutes of silence as everyone concentrated on their food . |
3 | If we were lucky , there were a few minutes in the evening when the wind dropped , the dust storm subsided , and we could brave the mosquitoes and wash the corrosive dust from our bodies . |
4 | Whichever tree structure is chosen , the time taken to build the structure from an ASCII word list is a few minutes for approximately 70,000 words . |
5 | ‘ He thinks it was a few minutes after six . ’ |
6 | The call was a few minutes in coming through — probably they had to look for Seddon at the other end . |