Example sentences of "few minutes [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I arrived ten minutes before her at one stop ( advance means a few minutes ahead as well as two months ) I found that two ladies in wheelchairs had positioned themselves at the foot of the stairs and were pleading with everyone to let them stay and shake hands with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 2 | Reporters for ITN were getting the results a few minutes ahead of the announcement , by asking the candidates . |
| 3 | The ‘ false ’ bus , used for escaping refugees , is carrying Michael ( Paul Newman ) and Sarah ( Julie Andrews ) , American scientists on the run from the security police , to the comparative safety of East Berlin ; it has to keep a few minutes ahead of the real , scheduled bus , so in fact most of the shots out of the bus windows concentrate mainly on the distance between the two buses , gradually diminishing and so raising suspicion . |
| 4 | They fall in a pattern , a few minutes apart , marching through the streets as the gunners zero in . |
| 5 | ‘ Turned up unexpected a few minutes ago , sir . |
| 6 | He had never been to a theatre in London , but he knew now , after the performance she had given a few minutes ago , that Mother Bombie was the greatest actress in the world . |
| 7 | It was working a few minutes ago , Pet stated . |
| 8 | ‘ Seems like just a few minutes ago ’ |
| 9 | A car radioed in only a few minutes ago . |
| 10 | But a few minutes ago I said I was dog-tired and hungry . |
| 11 | She could look back down on her twenty-two years and see a tall handsome man , and she recalled his words a few minutes ago , ‘ Sorrow does n't last . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ A few minutes ago , ’ said the girl , turning back to the mirror , ‘ I received an unwelcome visitor . ’ |
| 13 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
| 14 | That farewell to the coaches was going to be ‘ Hello ’ until a few minutes ago when the British Olympic Association suddenly cancelled a meet-the-press day . |
| 15 | Only a few minutes ago I felt a slight twitch in the boy 's calf muscle . |
| 16 | In reality , though , the trouble only started here in Aarau , Switzerland , a few minutes ago . |
| 17 | The reply came in a few minutes ago listing ten different countries with which he does business . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You , ’ the constable pointed to Will , ‘ what have you seen , was there a man here a few minutes ago or not ? ’ |
| 19 | I hardly would — you told me only a few minutes ago . ’ |
| 20 | But there was a motor bike went by a few minutes ago . |
| 21 | When I went up to check on him a few minutes ago , his bed was empty and cold ; it had n't been slept in . |
| 22 | " The man in the street … a few minutes ago . " |
| 23 | Any tapes that anybody can get to me this week would be very very good because I was saying er a few minutes ago erm I 'm intending to send whatever we 've got done tomorrow week . |
| 24 | Below it flows the Dorn , known to the Saxons as the Milk , from the cloudiness of its water after rain : and one still sees it as the Saxons saw it a thousand years ago , as I saw it a few minutes ago in the thin rain drifting down from the Cotswolds . |
| 25 | ‘ … and homicide Lieutenant Wilson stated a few minutes ago that the police are closing in . |
| 26 | okay Right you mentioned it a few minutes ago you suggested that this thing was formed . |
| 27 | Which one wa I I ca n't remember what I sa I was saying a f a lot of things a few minutes ago . |
| 28 | Well that was the question that Mr asked you a few minutes ago was n't it , er Mr ? |
| 29 | He seemed so old a few minutes ago and now he 's like a little kid again . |
| 30 | ‘ From what I heard you say a few minutes ago , you 're not feeling quite so grateful for the job now . ’ |