Example sentences of "[noun sg] of a [adj] minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will be crossing everything in the hope of a last minute reprieve . |
| 2 | It was the work of a few minutes . |
| 3 | The results suggested that the half-life of these complexes was short , in the range of a few minutes for P A2b and of 10–20 seconds for P A3 , since the DNA-strand opening was undetectable at both promoters after a 10 minutes challenge and , in the case of P A3 , considerably reduced after a 15 seconds challenge ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 4 | And that was a sort of a last minute cancellation , and I had to really persuade her to go . |
| 5 | It 's it it 's more than sort of a ten minute slot in a staff meeting . |
| 6 | BRITISH Telecom was ordered to pull the plug on chatline services last night after the failure of a last minute legal challenge . |
| 7 | The time resolution is excellent - the growth of maize seedlings over a period of a few minutes can be detected . |
| 8 | However , there was a delay of a few minutes from the start of the experiment before the chicks ate their first camouflaged rice grains . |
| 9 | Figure 2A depicts alternative frames from the 13 to the 17 minute of a 20 minute fasted sequence after preloading with 1 l of tape water . |
| 10 | She left the surgery clutching Lizzie 's collar ; in the space of a few minutes it was all she had been left with , apart from memories . |
| 11 | Claudia asked , her heart sinking at the idea of Dana rushing from shorts into a wedding dress in the space of a few minutes . |
| 12 | Turning to Naas Botha just as he was preparing to kick off the second half , Bishop remarked , ‘ We 're in for a hell of a 40 minutes , Naas ’ — just what sort of hell Botha would rather not have found out … |
| 13 | At the end of a few minutes , he had agreed to get Landau , and she had come up with the names of banks and accounts for both Foster and Landau , and the place where he could lay hands on Pete Foster . |
| 14 | After that the injection of the litter was a matter of a few minutes . |