Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] minutes [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After a few minutes of stilted , low-voiced conversation , Gladys retreated to her room , and Meryl thankfully resumed her seat in the window . |
| 3 | After a few minutes of this he grew breathless with anger and rage and flurried his wings so much that he was hardly able to lift them any more he was so tired . |
| 4 | After a few minutes of this silent contemplation the rider raised a curved horn to his lips and blew it three times . |
| 5 | Outside the wind grew even more savage and we cut short the one doomed attempt to raise the tent , retreating to the truck for a few minutes of poor slumber . |
| 6 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
| 7 | They scream in horrifying agony , and thick gouts of blood spray over anyone in the area as the meats fly with a squelch into roasting-trays on the tables , where they flop about for a few minutes like dying animals . |
| 8 | Blend for a few minutes until light and fluffy . |
| 9 | The Chorleywood Bread Process , introduced in 1961 , replaces a long ‘ proving ’ with a few minutes of intense mechanical mixing . |
| 10 | While she was doing this , within a few minutes of each other came Jasper , then Pat and Bert , then Roberta and Faye . |
| 11 | Within a few minutes of this treatment being given , he was able to button up his coat . |
| 12 | Eventually ( it would later be established it must have been within a few minutes of six-thirty ) the car slowed to a halt . |
| 13 | The time span of observation in these studies varies from a few minutes to several hours . |
| 14 | For stable samples we rarely need to obtain spectra in a hurry , and commercial spectrometers generally operate on timescales ranging from a few minutes to several hours . |
| 15 | The video shop did n't open up until a few minutes after ten . |
| 16 | ‘ The shot that killed Garland was fired at a few minutes past ten . |
| 17 | Tomorrow , May 21 , at a few minutes before six in the evening it will be precisely half a century since Wellington DV841 came down over the County Durham village of Roddymoor . |