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 ) . |