Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adv] a few minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car had been parked outside their home for only a few minutes before neighbours saw it being driven off by teenage youths . |
| 2 | you can get th I 've seen people spend sort of quite a few minutes going round in circles and give up on that when they 're nearly at the answer . |
| 3 | We talk about the stress in just a few minutes . |
| 4 | It was a matter of only a few minutes before the rebels reached the President 's quarters , and stopped to await General Bobo , who had made clear his intention to take over personally . |
| 5 | Erm so erm what we 've got then is is the the idea of ah looking at some kind of behavioural analysis , although I 'll got into behavioural analysis in just a few minutes . |
| 6 | She knew with total certainty that her imagination had n't been playing tricks , and that it was the second time in only a few minutes that she 'd heard those precise words . |