Example sentences of "[adv] [num] minute [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes only 10 minutes to get to the shops in the wheelchair . |
| 2 | It took only ten minutes to get from the Hatton 's flat to Bailey Street where , at number ten , Jack Pertwee lived with his widowed father . |
| 3 | No fewer than three railway stations offer a fast service to Paris ; and at night it takes only twenty minutes to drive from the town 's centre to the Etoile . |
| 4 | The judge , who took just 45 minutes to decide on the sentences , said he accepted Fraser was a drug addict who had admitted what he had done . |
| 5 | For comparison purposes it is interesting to note that searching a sequential ASCII file using a standard Unix command ( grep ) takes approximately two minutes to look for the 22 words of the test sentence , not including all the alternative candidate strings for each of these word positions . |
| 6 | They were expected to take about twenty minutes to sink to the bottom . |
| 7 | It took us about two minutes to get into the basement flat , about five minutes for Nicola to shake off the giggles and about another five for me to brief her as to what to say . |
| 8 | Each year four million cervical smears are taken , and each one needs at least five minutes to check for the signs of disease . |
| 9 | They allowed you five minutes from your house to the tram-stop they had selected , and then five minutes to walk to the courts . |
| 10 | Second division , Swansea away in the cup was never going to be an easy ticket for Oxford , but when Nick Cusack scored with just over 10 minutes to go at the Vetch Field , United looked a good bet for the 4th round . |