Example sentences of "a minute [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | there 'll be a minutes silence before that cup match tomorrow in memory of Gloucester club secretary Terry Tandy who died this week at the age of 57 … he served the club for twenty five years … he was a cherry and white through and through |
| 2 | The limitations of our normally functioning sensory apparatus enable us to experience a minute fragment of actual ‘ reality ’ . |
| 3 | You okay for a minute mum ? |
| 4 | just to make my day just to make my day yeah well , I was n't sure what those you see , hang on a minute mum so er she said she 'll either get the twelve or the one so I went down to see if she was on the twelve o'clock bus , and she was n't so I thought well I 'll try again |
| 5 | He answered with a minute shake of his head and she obeyed , sitting on to watch the fantastic skill with which they wove and rewove their patterns , each keeping the strings taut and symmetrical even as they transformed them into a completely new shape . |
| 6 | Clearly radical ideas were the property of a minute minority : in 1793 the people listened , not to French agents , but to friars preaching a crusade against atheism . |
| 7 | Crime exists , but rape is rare , and murder and theft exist on a minute scale compared to the urban crimes of the twentieth century . |
| 8 | The customary framework of the ‘ company ’ allowed an industrious and enterprising shopkeeper to participate , on a minute scale , in a variety of undertakings : shipbuilding , the fish and wine trade , the farming of royal or seignorial revenues , the new American trade , textiles , the importation of wheat and meat . |
| 9 | Micky Hazard started it with a header in the 88th minute and within a minute subsitute Ted McMinn had notched Derby 's fourth . |
| 10 | At the rear was a minute yard with lavatory . |
| 11 | Bruce was flustered , but Rathbone seized on a minute clue and rattled off a string of deductions . |
| 12 | ‘ Um — just a minute love — a hundred and ninety-four , good . |
| 13 | Si sit down a minute love |
| 14 | Danny , come here a minute love . |
| 15 | Just a minute love . |
| 16 | Hey wait a minute love , just a minute . |
| 17 | In a minute love , what ? . |
| 18 | You better go in a minute love |
| 19 | you 've got to go in a minute love |
| 20 | Yeah he 's going okay I 'll be up in a minute love . |
| 21 | Just a minute love . |
| 22 | If the edge of the plating does not provide enough information , a minute flake of plating , as small as 1 sq mm , can be mounted on its end in an epoxy resin for easy handling . |
| 23 | There was a minute cabin on the barge , no more than a place for the bargee to take shelter . |
| 24 | A Sony mobile phone costs around £299 , subscription to Cellnet Lifetime is about £15 per month , and calls are generally charged at 20p a minute off-peak and 50p a minute peak time — all in all , a reasonable price to pay for peace of mind . |
| 25 | She can barely move in her Gloucestershire home for the 200 or so ticking treasures jostling for space on the walls , mantelpieces and floors — anywhere where there 's a minute space to be had . |
| 26 | Any non-party candidate will have a very small chance of being elected and if , surprisingly , he is elected , he will have no more than a minute chance of exercising significant influence in the House . |
| 27 | Seals can close their earholes when they are underwater , and the earholes of whales have shrunk to a minute size . |
| 28 | I wo n't be a minute boy ! |
| 29 | Each one of these openings , was in life , occupied by an individual of the colony ( zooid ) , a minute animal with tentacles covered in cilia , that entrapped passing microorganisms and edible particles . |
| 30 | Benefits were low because only a minute proportion of copulations result in a reared cub in the next generation ( Journal of Zoology , vol 177 , p 463 ) . |