Example sentences of "[prep] only a few minutes [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car had been parked outside their home for only a few minutes before neighbours saw it being driven off by teenage youths . |
| 2 | He was inside for only a few minutes and emerged very badly shaken . |
| 3 | It was a matter of only a few minutes before the rebels reached the President 's quarters , and stopped to await General Bobo , who had made clear his intention to take over personally . |
| 4 | She knew with total certainty that her imagination had n't been playing tricks , and that it was the second time in only a few minutes that she 'd heard those precise words . |
| 5 | A second limitation is that the duration of the effect with standard doses is confined to only a few minutes before the drug diffuses around the circle of Willis and into the opposite hemisphere . |