Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] a few minutes " in BNC.
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1 | When she had left the bedroom he heard her feet scurrying for a few minutes , then the door slammed . |
2 | The time span of observation in these studies varies from a few minutes to several hours . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Similarly , the clock on the front of the American Bulletin of Atomic Scientists stood at a few minutes to midnight , but the American government did not heed it . |
5 | The police arrived within a few minutes . |