Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] a few minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman friend saw her driving out of town a few minutes later ; after that she just vanished into thin air . |
| 2 | ‘ How kind of you , ’ she said , balancing nicely on the edge of irony , in case a few minutes more of this should see him running out of line to shoot , and make it desirable to jettison him , ‘ how kind of you to tell me all about it ! ’ |
| 3 | It mattered not that Underwood repaid in kind a few minutes later — the damage had been done . |
| 4 | Out of the twenty-eight women on the house , three went to bed , and they were in fact to lose two weeks ' remission each for being in bed a few minutes late . |
| 5 | Each night she retired to bed a few minutes earlier , and he saw it as an excuse to avoid the means of starting another pregnancy , though she was in the best of health . |