Example sentences of "[art] [adj] few minute [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I imagine that this would be a good finger exercise for resting concert pianists — after the first few minutes my digits were dead ! |
| 2 | While she stood staring at it , breathing heavily and conscious that if anyone had made a fool of herself during the past few minutes it was Melissa Craig , the phone began to ring again . |
| 3 | For the past few minutes she had not really been paying much attention to the direction and she looked round worriedly . |
| 4 | In the last few minutes he would fumble in a inside pocket , and the Queen in her handbag , and they would quickly run through the formal subjects for discussion . |
| 5 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 6 | For the next few minutes I had to put up with Sid 's reminiscences about how much worse it had been during the campaign in North Africa . |
| 7 | After a heart-stopping few minutes it was realized that it could be just squeezed through with about three-quarters of an inch to spare . |