Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] minute [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes work on both reins Skipper was going forward , with his brain between his ears . |
| 2 | The resultant online , interactive database is designed to be so easy to use that after a few minutes practice even novices can make very sophisticated searches and will have nearly instantaneous access to a vast storehouse of information hitherto accessible only after tedious , time-consuming and costly searches through individual issues . |
| 3 | Referee Alf Buksh ignores the crowd 's calls for Hughes to be sent off after a 69th minute foul . |
| 4 | It 's it it 's more than sort of a ten minute slot in a staff meeting . |
| 5 | Will be crossing everything in the hope of a last minute reprieve . |
| 6 | And that was a sort of a last minute cancellation , and I had to really persuade her to go . |
| 7 | Each side covers one side , forty five minutes of a ninety minute tape . |
| 8 | No , I wa I was , er er I I was thinking anyway , that it was n't exactly like that , it 's more like a Forty Minutes type thing . |
| 9 | It uses Dermalogica products combined with massage to relieve tension by working on pressure points and costs only £10 for a 45 minute session . |
| 10 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |
| 11 | Each level consists of 20 short teaching units divided into three parts , each of which conveniently provides you with the material for a 45–50 minute lesson . |
| 12 | So , if you have a head wind component of 30 kts then timing for a 1 minute leg would be increased by 30 seconds . |
| 13 | Cost Around £30 for a 75–90 minute session . |
| 14 | I was guided into an ante-room for a last minute briefing . |
| 15 | Nursing staff at the famous Beeson Ward had hoped for a last minute reprieve , but the Health Authority stuck by its decision to close down the only ward in the country where nurses , not doctors , have the responsibility for admitting and discharging patients . |
| 16 | Confusion in the Scunthorpe defence almost let in Gary Bennett for a fourth minute opener , but he hooked his shot over the bar under pressure from Matthew Elliott . |
| 17 | During a 40 minute session , Steven uses massage and manipulation to loosen up Lizs muscles , to release tension and ease pain . |
| 18 | Watched by England number two Lawrie McMenemy , Stuart did get on as a 64th minute substitute , but added : ‘ It seems everyone else gets straight back into the side after injury except me . |
| 19 | Bart-Williams ' appearance as a 64th minute substitute transformed the game — and it was his corner that led to Wednesday 's equaliser . |
| 20 | Right , but let's say that you 're not prepared to pop back , let's say that you 're sitting there and you 've got from that point , you want , you no want to go to the house , right , now you 're not you 're not gon na treat as a twenty minute call back , let's kill that for a minute |
| 21 | The Montana is close to the centre of the resort , but in a quite location about a one minute walk from the Hahnenkamm cable car . |
| 22 | It 's only a ten minute , it 's about a ten minute journey from Digby to Southlands . |
| 23 | I mean , it 's quite , it 's about yeah , I do n't know , he said it 's about a forty minute walk or something . |
| 24 | There is the whole of the Brixen and Sperten valleys to explore , and it is about a ninety minutes walk to Kitzbuhel . |
| 25 | It 's just literally about a twenty minute session . |
| 26 | Its got , its got er one the downward thrust , one for an angled thrust and one for level thrust , and its got a , they reckon its got about a twenty minute range if it takes off vertically |
| 27 | He was also chairman of the Newspaper Publishers Association and pointed out to the proprietor of the Daily Mail the danger of damaging democracy through a last minute election stunt story . |
| 28 | No longer in the calendar with a prime week of its own , an event which has only just survived this year through a last minute rescue sponsorship package , will hardly be able to reduce its prize money in 1993 from the $1m it already pays to the Double-Up new minimum of $625,000 , even though it will no longer be guaranteed even one of the top ten ranked or other leading box office players . |
| 29 | West Ham took the lead through a 51st minute penalty from Julian Dicks . |
| 30 | Barnes put the Lions ahead to stay with a 33rd minute penalty and Clement and Rory Underwood scored second-half tries for the touring side . |