Example sentences of "[art] [adj] minutes [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slaven put the ball in the net in the dying minutes but the goal was disallowed for offside . |
| 2 | I ad-libbed for a few minutes while the re-take was set up and they warmed to me , which boosted my confidence and gave me the edge . |
| 3 | The last I saw of Angy was a few minutes after the class ended . |
| 4 | It was very simple , efficient , and reliable in operation , with the minor disadvantage that the vaporizer required preheating for a few minutes before the engine could be started ; when running , it retained sufficient heat to ignite the injected fuel . |
| 5 | A second limitation is that the duration of the effect with standard doses is confined to only a few minutes before the drug diffuses around the circle of Willis and into the opposite hemisphere . |
| 6 | As it was only a few minutes before the shop closed , he forbore to detail the checkout girl with his usual badinage about the finer points of philosophy or astrophysics . |
| 7 | Despite being normally mesmerised by the subject of the early Renaissance artists , on this occasion I was grateful to see the professor stacking up his papers a few minutes before the lecture was scheduled to end . |
| 8 | ‘ If it 's all right by you , I 'll wait a few minutes until the storm subsides , ’ Vitor said , as thunder boomed again . |
| 9 | Simmer for a few minutes until the sauce is thickened . |
| 10 | It is the unique experience of rail travellers on the Gotthard to glimpse the same , unmistakable baroque-domed village church three times in a few minutes as the train passes it at different levels above and below . |
| 11 | But the time should still be only a few minutes and the parent should go to collect the child and indicate when it is appropriate to join the family again . |
| 12 | Such increases in tannin in browsed Acacia nigrescens in southern Africa have been reported to take place in a few minutes and the production of ethylene during damage has been considered to be the promoter of tannin increase . |
| 13 | not being taken until one and a half minutes before the guillotine fell . |
| 14 | Two and a half minutes since the wicket gone . |
| 15 | Moreover , criminal violence showed no signs of abating : statistics revealed that in 1972 , for example , there was in the United States a murder every 28 minutes , a rape every 11 minutes and a car theft every 36 seconds . |
| 16 | And you attached this quarter pound of to it then you hoisted it back up and there was a clock in the light room which struck every five minutes and every time the clock struck you fired the charge . |