Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] [adj] minutes [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The Ministers and the Court dignitaries were on the platform to make their farewells , which the Emperor had insisted be short and restrained , so that within a few minutes of his arrival he and his son were on board and the train left to cries of ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’
2 Ice fishing , I find , is as cold as anything I have ever tried in the Arctic , and after a few minutes of unproductive ass-freezing I pack it in .
3 Only five or six farms were involved in this tragedy ; but for a few minutes at least we traverse fields brought into being by the high-handed action of a fifteenth-century squire , and pass by the mounds where the hamlet of Holyoak once stood .
4 She had heard dark mutterings about him but after a few minutes of talking with him she was ready to put it down to common envy .
5 Nicky Ryan can be a defensive man in the wrong company , but after a few minutes in my presence he seems to know I have ‘ felt ’ Enya 's music , and he relaxes considerably .
6 But in the last minutes of the game , after Phillip de Glanville had ripped open the defence for Hunter 's second try — leaving England 18–12 behind — England again lacked the cold , clinical brain the would open the way through the New Zealand defence .
7 It is presumed to have taken place and been carried , for by the next Minutes in 1920 , caddies were certainly permitted on a Sunday .
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