Example sentences of "[prep] a [det] minutes [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes he had spoken again . |
| 2 | Her earlier fears about what terrors lay in store returned , all the more powerful because for a few minutes she had forgotten them . |
| 3 | Within a few minutes he had noticed a scruffy individual walk into the Oak public house , Stoke Row . |
| 4 | He led me to his house and in a few minutes I had diagnosed the trouble — a flat battery . |
| 5 | If she was nervous it remained hidden and in a few minutes she had put each of the sisters completely at ease , their shame and apprehension gone . |