Example sentences of "twenty minutes [unc] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ That 's about all I can do here , ’ he grumbled , after twenty minutes ' work .
2 Well I suppose at the , one of the best things , best examples of the difference was that my wife when she saw this house , knew that it was a house in which she could be happy , in which her tastes and , could spread themselves , erm rather than her tastes having to be curtailed by lack of space and lack of accommodation , erm , the fact that I had a garage which was essential er next to my house instead of some er quarter or twenty minutes ' walk away from where I lived as happened in London also made a terrific difference to comfort , erm the fact that there was a garden instead of a few windowboxes and a couple of tubs , all these things I think made one appreciate the fact that you 'd come , not only into a new town , but into a new way of life probably the fact that we had a staircase inside the house , which was the first time that we 'd had a staircase between our bedrooms and our living rooms
3 On my first day at the Istituto Tecnico Macedonio Melloni , which was about twenty minutes ' walk from where the tram stopped , all the new pupils were being greeted at the top of a large staircase by the headmaster , a rather forbidding figure who had a white beard and gold-rimmed spectacles , and was dressed in a black suit .
4 I 'll be talking er , to the writer of the article in She magazine in about twenty minutes ' time , and er we 'll discuss with her , how you make the best of these unwelcome guests .
5 That 's what we 'll be attempting to find out in twenty minutes ' time .
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