Example sentences of "[prep] the few minutes [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | For the few minutes he was trapped there he could feel the pull of the ocean on his legs . |
2 | During the few minutes they chatted , apart from mentioning he was divorced , he did not bring up Liza 's name . |
3 | Moran was unassertive and attentive in the few minutes they discussed the game afterwards . |
4 | In a political and administrative system as riddled with tradition as the British , the old model could , and probably will , be restored in the few minutes it takes a new prime minister to travel from Buckingham Palace to Downing Street . |
5 | ‘ You managed to organize all this in the few minutes I was out there ? |