Example sentences of "[prep] the first [adj] minutes [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first twenty minutes or so of motoring , I can not say I was seized by any excitement or anticipation at all . |
| 2 | Once I know how fast my ‘ feeder is emptying , or have made it empty at the pace I require , I cast very frequently for the first twenty minutes or so — as fast as the emptying of the ‘ feeder will allow — and then slow down only just enough to keep a steady trickle of feed through the swim . |
| 3 | This part of Enfield has those yellow sodium lamps that have that delicate rosy glow for the first few minutes after they are switched on . |
| 4 | For the first 30 minutes after meal completion data were sampled every minute , followed by 3 minute frames for the remainder of the study . |
| 5 | Crusaders were pinned back in their own half for the first 20 minutes as the visiting pack was dominant . |
| 6 | The change in gastric acid secretion , between basal acid secretion and stimulated acid secretion , that occurred during the first 30 minutes after sham feeding was compared with the change in urine acid output ( DUAO ) over the same period . |
| 7 | The season began in spectacular fashion when , within the first 20 minutes after the helicopter landed , Keizo Yanai , of the Institute of Polar Programs in Tokyo , discovered two stony meteorites lying a few hundred yards away . |
| 8 | I do n't want to be blown across the room in the first ten minutes so I hang back a little as we sit round the table with Anthony Hopkins and Campbell Scott to read the scene through and discuss it . |
| 9 | Dickins had had nothing more than a back pass and a free-kick to deal with in the first 30 minutes but showed signs of nervousness when Bull challenged for a Birch free-kick . |
| 10 | CAPTAIN Will Carling last night told England to sing up and play up in the first 20 minutes or risk Naas Botha wrecking their hopes of winning today 's historic international at Twickenham . |
| 11 | City , whose power struggle has dominated the season 's headlines , continued to struggle on the pitch where they conceded two goals in the first 22 minutes and have now gone nine Premiership games without a win . |