Example sentences of "minutes a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group intends to have System V achieve a downtime of about five minutes a year by 1999 . |
| 2 | Every few minutes a man came in and called someone 's name . |
| 3 | Patients must practise the techniques for up to 20 minutes a day . |
| 4 | You must train on your own for at least ten minutes a day . |
| 5 | If the runner can be told exactly why he or she is doing a particular type of training , what bodily changes it will bring about and how he or she should run to achieve them , then those 15 minutes a day of quality training are more than enough . |
| 6 | They were often unable to keep time to within fifteen minutes a day and were frequently out of order . |
| 7 | If you will spend just ten or fifteen minutes a day practising a simple relaxation technique , you will begin to feel the benefit within a matter of days . |
| 8 | Forty patients with advanced multiple sclerosis received either pure oxygen or a mixture of 10 per cent oxygen in nitrogen , for 90 minutes a day . |
| 9 | Answer : a notched wooden roller that is turned gently back and forth between the palms and fingers for a couple of minutes a day . |
| 10 | However , in a separate report compiled by consultant analyst Brian Sturgess , ‘ The Funding Bible ’ , the BBC is urged to take advertising , predicting that a mere two minutes a day on both BBC1 and BBC2 would net the Corporation £433m by the year 2000 at 1991 prices . |
| 11 | Their 3 Step 3 Product System has been developed by dermatologists , takes only three minutes a day and costs just £32.50 . |
| 12 | They will simply be asked to spend about fifteen minutes a day using a combination of relaxation and visualization techniques which they will have been taught . |
| 13 | If I feel that a particular patient is suffering from extreme tension and finds it difficult to relax , then I may suggest that , during the two weeks following the regression session , he simply practises a basic relaxation exercise for a few minutes a day . |
| 14 | Just 15 minutes a day is all that is required initially . |
| 15 | He advises setting aside 15 minutes a day to study and consciously interpret her own and other people 's gestures and he promises that we will be amazed to find how much our ‘ intuitions ’ about people can improve . |
| 16 | More than half now spend between five and 20 minutes a day on personal grooming . |
| 17 | Even if it 's just ten minutes a day , allocate some time for your self-esteem programme . |
| 18 | A couple of minutes a day with a good handcream is the key to smooth , soft hands . |
| 19 | The average man read his paper for 69 minutes a day , according to an IPC survey in 1972 — 3 , and the average woman for 47 minutes . |
| 20 | I ca n't spend much more than ten minutes a day cleaning altogether ! |
| 21 | By dedicating at least five minutes a day to thinking through his use of time , the Profitboss manages to get his priorities right . |
| 22 | It 's not desperately moist , although certainly one of them is cracking quite a bit , and if that helps to dry it up and make it more comfortable then it 's worth giving them a soak ten minutes a day . |
| 23 | During the last two years I have spent a total of 15 minutes a day with my son 's diaper bucket and can deal quickly with even the most challenging mess . |
| 24 | Social historians might want to know that the average phone in the US was used for twenty minutes a day in 1992 , whereas the average phone in the UK was used for only four minutes . |
| 25 | ‘ Initially people think bonsai trees must be quite difficult to keep , but all it takes is a few minutes a day to see they are properly watered . |
| 26 | The £12.50 monthly subscription charge for non-business users of Mercury One-2-One would buy nearly 1,100 minutes at BT local off-peak rates , or 35 minutes a day , he said . |
| 27 | Yeah , even if it 's only ten minutes a day , at least it 's something . |
| 28 | United should have killed York off then … they had more of the ball and the best of the chances … even York manager reckons that Hereford are a better team than their league position suggests and he was happy with a draw … the equaliser came after 33 minutes a header from John Borthwick … one all … what now for United … |
| 29 | In patients without cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy infusion of increasing doses of cholecystokinin 8 induced after 30 minutes a reduction of the gall bladder volume to 19 ( 5 ) % of fasting volume . |
| 30 | Early on June 30 a small group of Army officers led by Lt. Mwamba Luchembe succeeded in broadcasting at regular intervals over 90 minutes a message on national radio saying that the Army had taken over in response to the food price rises . |