Example sentences of "[adv] a few minutes [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quick action is vital , since anyone who stops breathing can usually live for only a few minutes without help . |
| 2 | She was familiar enough with the garden by this time to return in only a few minutes with sheafs of colourful tropical blooms , and she arranged them in two big vases to make riotously informal bunches of colour that lacked classical form but would , she hoped , be pleasing to Faye 's artistic eye . |
| 3 | I 've nothing against these two teams , but to be deprived of the euphoric English faces after only a few minutes of joy and achievement was an insult . |
| 4 | felt too tired to drive me on to ESF 's house , so I got there by bus , or rather by two buses ( an easy change ) , the first starting from about a hundred yards from and the other stopping just behind the Zoo by Primrose Hill and only a few minutes from Eduardo . |
| 5 | It 's only a few minutes by air , ’ he explained when she looked astonished . |
| 6 | I shall deal mainly with the latter subject , but I intend to spend just a few minutes on education . |
| 7 | Shiona 's plane touched down at Glasgow airport just a few minutes before midday the following day . |
| 8 | Sandison could not be sure how much Maidstone had had to drink that day — it was still a few minutes before noon — but he knew that he was sober enough to understand fully what was going on . |