Example sentences of "[prep] a few minutes [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After a few minutes of this silent contemplation the rider raised a curved horn to his lips and blew it three times . |
| 3 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
| 4 | While she was doing this , within a few minutes of each other came Jasper , then Pat and Bert , then Roberta and Faye . |
| 5 | Within a few minutes of this treatment being given , he was able to button up his coat . |
| 6 | The time span of observation in these studies varies from a few minutes to several hours . |
| 7 | 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 . |