Example sentences of "[prep] more [subord] a few minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Frankie had been dozing , he was too hungry to sleep for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 2 | As I said in an earlier chapter , the principle of speaking is not to go on for more than a few minutes without getting your audience to do something — applaud or laugh or raise their hands . |
| 3 | TOWARDS the end of her life my mother was in hospital , a victim of Alzheimer 's Disease , a severe diabetic , unable to walk and increasingly unable to remain conscious for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 4 | Hauser noticed again that Frank was very physical , could hardly keep still for more than a few minutes . |
| 5 | I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe . |
| 6 | The back-to-back pair of dessert spoons riffled through his fingers , producing an intricate , staccato percussion which he was , however , unable to keep up for more than a few minutes together ; then he would get his fingers tangled up and the spoons would clang to a halt and he would shake his head furiously and begin all over again . |
| 7 | A breathless , pervasive sense of heat possessed her body at every return of the memory and she was unable to remain settled and at ease in her seat for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 8 | Downes himself could not stay for more than a few minutes . |
| 9 | Not for more than a few minutes ; just time enough to look around with his eyes , around and back at things that had happened to him . |
| 10 | There were times during the long hours of dark when he did drop into an uneasy doze , but never for more than a few minutes together . |