Example sentences of "took [num] minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | His heart stopped beating and doctors who were summoned took 32 minutes to restart his heart . |
| 2 | Hodgson took 278 minutes to complete his hundred , facing 239 balls and hitting 13 fours and he was still there on 107 out of Gloucestershire 's 208 for two at the close . |
| 3 | The fly is large , and took eight minutes to erect on my own but just five minutes with a friend . |
| 4 | It took eight minutes , outside of the three minutes aimed at for a wait at ticket offices , but the charter makes no distinction or offer of compensation for that delay . |
| 5 | Production of the complete SDI output took 12 minutes , or just under 200 queries an hour . |
| 6 | Twenty to anyway , gone twenty to when I was at , it took forty minutes . |
| 7 | It took 30 minutes of argument , a great deal of soothing of apparently hurt professional pride , and not a little money to persuade Chela that it was time to call it a night , alone . |
| 8 | They then took 30 minutes to an hour to settle again . |
| 9 | The interview took 30 minutes for each manager . |
| 10 | But once I got to the hospital and after the operation the doctor reassured me it was a straightforward and took forty-five minutes . |
| 11 | Which was good from the point of view that you took thirteen minutes to do the first three and then two minutes to do the last , last three . |
| 12 | But it took 10 minutes to haul her out and attempts to revive her failed . |
| 13 | It took three minutes for a plain-clothes policeman to reach the booths , but all were empty . |
| 14 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |
| 15 | It took three minutes to erect the inner tent on its first outing but because it was raining constantly , the inner was a little wet before I had a chance to put the flysheet over . |
| 16 | A jury took 90 minutes to find Steventon-Rogers , of Calkewood Lane , Rickinghall , guilty of causing grievous bodily harm with intent . |
| 17 | From the hearing , which took ninety minutes , Willis emerged visibly shaken , having been told he must wait five days before hearing if he was to go to prison or not . |
| 18 | The trains which handled the local traffic took ninety minutes for the journey . |
| 19 | Previously it had taken Ford 14 hours to assemble a car ; now it took 93 minutes . |
| 20 | The wholemeal bread took 11 minutes longer to consume ( 45 minutes ) than the white bread ( 34 minutes ) . |
| 21 | The journey , at that hour of the morning , took thirty-five minutes . |
| 22 | And with Speak overcoming a nervous start -he took 33 minutes to get off the mark to hit a string of boundaries , the pair put on 141 in less than 30 overs . |
| 23 | The ‘ jury ’ took 50 minutes to consider the evidence . |
| 24 | Since the conferences lasted an hour and a half or longer and some of his individual answers took twenty-five minutes to deliver , this was a prodigious effort . |
| 25 | Last week a Durham City vehicle took 25 minutes to answer an emergency call in Bishop Auckland , and recently a woman in Upper Teesdale had to wait over an hour for an ambulance . |
| 26 | The incident last weekend happened just a few hundred yards from Bishop Auckland ambulance station , but it took 25 minutes for a vehicle to arrive from Durham City 12 miles away . |
| 27 | Fifty minutes later he had 53 from 35 balls , and thirty-one minutes after that , from another 21 balls , he had 103 ; the fastest century in terms of balls received in the history of Test cricket , 56 balls to Jack Gregory 's 67 against South Africa in 1921–2 , although Gregory took only 70 minutes while Richards took 81 minutes . |
| 28 | It took ten minutes of brisk walking to get my blood flowing again , my consciousness slowly returning from a journey beyond my body . |
| 29 | In the end it took ten minutes to get the Cambridgeshire police Land Rover turned past McLeish 's squad and their vans , and away back up to the stable . |
| 30 | It took ten minutes to reach Honey Cottage , with Yanto trying his best to scare the pants off Mary . |