Example sentences of "a few minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Rome a visitor can stand in front of a Baroque church , but a few minutes later , having walked only a short distance , may have plunged back in time to Antiquity . |
| 2 | It takes only a few minutes . |
| 3 | He and the housekeeper continued to converse for a few minutes and finally he said , ‘ Very well , Mrs Pettifer , sherry at six . ’ |
| 4 | I 've got a meeting in a few minutes and I — ’ |
| 5 | Look , I 'm going to be snarled up in another meeting in a few minutes . |
| 6 | I was silent for a moment , trying desperately hard to remember events that had happened only a few minutes earlier . |
| 7 | After a few minutes , my friend reappeared . |
| 8 | I 'll catch up with you again in a few minutes . |
| 9 | Why do n't we go and sit down for a few minutes and then you can decide what you want to do next ? ’ |
| 10 | Although you may get ridiculously low because of pressing on too hard , when , a few minutes later , you are back in the good conditions several thousand feet up , you must forget the wasted time and concentrate on flying normally . |
| 11 | Trestles make it all so much easier and safer , and it is worth while having a second one so that everyone can relax for a few minutes if it is proving difficult to align both wings to get the main pins in place . |
| 12 | Ideally , you need a few minutes to settle comfortably before setting off , but if you have to rush you can usually blame yourself for not getting in before he cable or towplane arrives . |
| 13 | Inevitably they come straight down in a few minutes looking rather sheepish ! |
| 14 | Moreover , it was but a few minutes walk from the Junior School ( Roslyn ) , and only a little further from the senior school ( Westmount High ) to which Esther and Leonard were duly sent . |
| 15 | ‘ Would you talk to me for a few minutes ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Just for a few minutes . |
| 17 | After waiting a few minutes she collected the pictures from the slot outside the booth , put them in her bag without looking at them and hurried home . |
| 18 | He said , ‘ You 're down to lay the table in a few minutes . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ There 's only a few minutes left , they 'll never … wait wait , Steven has it , he 's come from nowhere and yes , he 's going for a shot ! … ’ |
| 20 | He was alone for just a few minutes and I made my offer . |
| 21 | A few minutes later and I was getting into the rescue ambulance for a short ride to the Belford Hospital in Fort William . |
| 22 | She left the surgery clutching Lizzie 's collar ; in the space of a few minutes it was all she had been left with , apart from memories . |
| 23 | DOZENS more East German refugees arrived outside the West German embassy yesterday seeking asylum and passage to the West , including some who missed by only a few minutes a train that took more than 800 of their compatriots to West Germany . |
| 24 | Happily he missed , tried the shot again a few minutes later , and middled it . |
| 25 | With full-back Ian Hunter not appearing Cumbria were in doubt about their line-up until a few minutes before kick-off , but showed no signs of uncertainty when the action began , winning a penalty from their first attack . |
| 26 | In a few minutes , six pages of Russian text had travelled from Riga to Moscow . |
| 27 | A few minutes later music drones from his room . |
| 28 | Quite apart from the blunder there was one moment near the end of the game when he was walking around on the stage of Sadler 's Wells , unaware for a few minutes that it was his move . |
| 29 | You thrash around for a few minutes , trying not to breathe , but you have to inhale sometimes . ’ |
| 30 | After a few minutes we watched them crossing the field , alongside the hedgerow . |