Example sentences of "and a minute " in BNC.

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1 The car had an extremely small glasshouse with a sharply raked wraparound windscreen and a minute roof .
2 With that she was gone and a minute or so later , they heard the crack of a whip and the sound of horses ' hooves as the coach pulled away .
3 Their quarters turned out to be a small suite , with two sleeping cabins and a minute dining-room .
4 Derby edged their way back into the game , and a minute before half-time pulled a goal back when Tommy Johnson won a penalty , converted by Mark Pembridge .
5 Using sheet metal cutters the crew set to work and a minute later a rather shocked Sam was free .
6 No anthems will be sung and a minute 's silence for peace will be observed .
7 He heard her key in the door and a minute later she was in the kitchen .
8 With very limited resources and a minute technology base , the quality and innovation of Japan 's aircraft has always deserved serious study .
9 Deep in this territory , about eight miles from Siena and only five miles from Castellina , lies tiny San Leonino — six old , old houses , and a minute church .
10 He came closer , bent again , and a minute later his red coat disappeared through the grass .
11 At ten minutes to four he heard a car in the village and a minute or two later it was travelling along the road .
12 I ran into the corridor , and just then I heard a whistle , and a minute later the sound of falling metal .
13 We have listened to the Secretary of State speak for an hour and a minute , and during those 61 minutes never once did he utter a word about the central feature of the Bill — the doctrinaire destruction of Her Majesty 's inspectorate of schools and the privatisation of the national and local schools inspectorates .
14 At 10.15p.m. we cast , and a minute later we were into bream .
15 No more than 0.1% drives the wind , waves and ocean currents and a minute 0.03% is consumed in photosynthesis .
16 Basically the system is our cover note book control , er , we issue cover note books to agents and it 's up to us to make sure that they 're all issued in sequence , as their legal documents etc , and a minute a gap comes up we have to chase them etc , it 's run by erm , people quite low units and they scared of a job and tend to put it off as lose , and I want to visit and try and influence them so I can give them some help and to change it and bring it up to date , because it 's er .
17 and a minute later Mooney made his hat-trick … 6-1 to Southend …
18 Mm but this was last year and I just cleared the ball and everybody ran out ran out and I suddenly collapsed in agony on the floor cos my knee just completely gave way and it was really painful and a minute later I stood up and it was fine , it did n't give me any more hassle for the rest of the day .
19 We 've had three goals with just over twenty minutes gone , has scored for the visitors on the fourteen with a brilliant shot , a brilliant header on twenty , and a minute later the penalty has brought Notts back , looking out of the game , was the player pushed , the referee consulted the linesman , had no hesitation and ends the goal drought for himself , will leave on the bench
20 It all then got rather frustrating and a little worrying as Portsmouth looked more and more dangerous ; in the seventy seventh minute Les Robertson was booked for a foul on Russell and a minute later John Beresford booked for a foul on Nogan .
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