Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] a [det] minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were woken a few minutes before one o'clock in the morning by a phone call from a friend who told us that the insistent thudding we could hear was American artillery fire . |
| 2 | Her question was answered a few minutes later when Matthew himself came outside and saw her at the window . |
| 3 | Mr Toubon 's appointment as Minister of Culture , made public just before 8pm on 30 March , was announced a few minutes later over the public address system at the Salon de Mars art fair , which had just opened — to widespread applause . |
| 4 | Anyway , he was gone a few minutes , and he came back smelling — you know . |
| 5 | His morale was uplifted a few minutes later when the same Minister returned with a gaggle of additional members evidently called from the floor of the House . |
| 6 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 7 | It turned out that my grandfather was right for Cody was killed a few minutes afterwards for just this reason . |