Example sentences of "[was/were] only a few minutes " in BNC.
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1 | Her flat was only a few minutes ' walk away from the station . |
2 | It was only a few minutes ' walk to her office in Aldersgate Street ; but she normally did not arrive there till nine . |
3 | It was only a few minutes . |
4 | As soon as the casing was in position at stage 2 , it was only a few minutes work to pull the cables through the casing and fix the capping . |
5 | They had heard that they sold them in Clery 's , and that was only a few minutes from where the bus stopped when it went to Dublin . |
6 | As it was only a few minutes before the shop closed , he forbore to detail the checkout girl with his usual badinage about the finer points of philosophy or astrophysics . |
7 | At Godstowe Priory Dame Frances was only a few minutes away from death . |
8 | He was only a few minutes late having been caught in traffic on a motorway . |
9 | The house was only a few minutes ' drive away from the river . |
10 | It was only a few minutes before we decided on the Bell . |