Example sentences of "minutes [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 2 | That programme 's on in about five minutes about food ? |
| 3 | On arrival at Llandrindod we crossed over to the other platform to board the train which had arrived from Swansea — there being only nine minutes between arrival and departure — only to be told that we would have to go back on to the unit we had travelled up on . |
| 4 | Sleep onset time was reduced from 33 minutes during baseline recordings to less than 5 minutes by the seventh night , and time spent awake after going to sleep was reduced from about 30 minutes to virtually zero . |
| 5 | in the first fifteen minutes of the journey Yeah er What 's fifteen minutes as part of an hour ? |
| 6 | San Francisco : On January 31 , over 60 protestors successfully blockaded the Golden Gate Bridge stopping traffic for 48 minutes as Part of a movement to escalate the war on AIDS . |
| 7 | If your life is so rushed that you only have five to ten minutes for lunch , and your body knows that you have to consume at least 300–400 calories in order to make it through until the evening , it is going to look for a very convenient solution , and that means , high calorie , low volume food that is readily available , such as a chunky cheese sandwich , or worse still , a chocolate bar . |
| 8 | You both took at least ninety minutes for lunch . |
| 9 | Secretions were obtained for 60 minutes for estimation of basal acid output . |
| 10 | After this , pentagastrin ( 6 µg/kg ) was administered subcutaneously and gastric juice was collected for a further 60 minutes for estimation of maximal and peak acid output . |
| 11 | ‘ But you can only have ten minutes for breakfast ! ’ |
| 12 | The Education Committee will look in governors ' minutes for evidence of this . |
| 13 | Northern Ireland international Magilton , who had given Oxford the lead from the penalty spot , went after 58 minutes for retaliation after being fouled by Paul Raynor . |
| 14 | Blood samples were collected every 15 minutes for gastrin determination and the plasma stored at -20°C . |
| 15 | It took only minutes for Lubor to drive her to her hotel , but as she thanked him for lunch and he handed her back her parcel , he replied , ‘ Lunch was a happy time for me also , ’ and did n't waste a moment to enquire , ‘ Shall we have a happy dinner together this evening ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ One Saturday we were kept waiting for TWO MINUTES for Science Now on Radio 4 which then ran its full 30 minutes . |
| 17 | After allowing between 45 and 90 minutes for incorporation of labelled amino acid into protein , anaesthesia was induced and biopsies of rectal mucosa or tumour were taken immediately , through a sigmoidoscope ( therefore the patient was anesthetised for only five minutes of the 45–90 minute period available for incorporation of isotope ) . |
| 18 | presented a ‘ grid ’ file that performs particularly well when the number of search attributes is ten or less , and offers a high data storage utilization , good growth characteristics and efficient processing of range queries ; Stanfill and Kahle explain the principles of a parallel free-text search on a particular parallel computer , and claim a retrieval speed of 2 — 3 minutes for Boolean queries of 25 and 20000 terms respectively when the database in question takes up 15 Gbytes of storage space . |
| 19 | And we had er two hours off during the day , er and twenty minutes for dinner and er about twenty minutes for tea . |
| 20 | ‘ Ten minutes for refreshment ’ 1892 : passengers bolt their lunch at York station buffet prior to reboarding , in the days before buffet cars were provided . |
| 21 | And we had er two hours off during the day , er and twenty minutes for dinner and er about twenty minutes for tea . |
| 22 | City finally broke away after 29 minutes through centre Mark Potter , and following a scrum on the line flanker Rob Milton drove over to cut the gap to 6–4 at halftime . |
| 23 | Intraluminal infusion of bile ( 0.5 ml ) was started five minutes after initiation of the PYX 1 infusion . |
| 24 | Thirty minutes after ingestion of the test solution the patient was encouraged to drink and was instructed to collect urine over the next 5 hours . |
| 25 | Mandy did n't have a very good start in life when she was rejected by her mother only minutes after birth . |
| 26 | It was not logistically feasible to standardise the sampling time ; in 23 of the 36 cases this was between 45 and 120 minutes after birth . |
| 27 | Experiments illustrated in figure 1 on fires in a storage of goods on pallets in open racks showed that in three minutes after ignition , the flames were growing at a dangerous rate , and that after eight minutes the flames had encompassed the whole height of the racking ( 18 m ) and were producing large volumes of acrid smoke . |
| 28 | Responses to CCK-8 or bethanechol were recorded 10 minutes after pretreatment with the NO synthase inhibitors or with saline ( all drugs were administered as an intravenous bolus dissolved in 0.9% NaCl ) . |
| 29 | Mucosal resistance to acid was tested in anaesthetised rats fed the experimental diets for at least four weeks ( 60 rats per diet ) by duodenal infusion of HCl ( 200 to 700µmol ) 30 minutes after pretreatment with either saline or 100µmol HCl ( used as a mild irritant ) . |
| 30 | The test meal contained 12 ml lactulose and was eaten after overnight fasting by each subject within five minutes , again 20 minutes after insulin injection . |