Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a few minutes " in BNC.
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1 | You only got a few minutes did n't you ? |
2 | When they called on us , they would always say to Mum , ‘ Fanny , we came to see how you are getting on , but we can only stay a few minutes . ’ |
3 | Trinity Square still proving to be very busy so expect a few minutes wait if you want to get yourself parked in there and have a couple of minutes wait if you want to get into the Victoria Centre that 's at the York Street entrance . |
4 | Some only last a few minutes . |
5 | ‘ It only takes a few minutes , ’ said one . |
6 | It only takes a few minutes to write yet receiving a letter out of the blue can mean such a lot to somebody . |
7 | The whole process only takes a few minutes , although to the distraught owners it can seem like hours . |
8 | The island of Porto Santo has a regular air link with Madeira by a small Air Portugal plane which only takes a few minutes . |
9 | Once you know the volume and page of your statute in the main work ( or in the Continuation Volumes ) , it only takes a few minutes to find the annotations in the Cumulative Supplement and Current Statutes Service . |
10 | But although it only takes a few minutes , life without thick glasses has a cost . |
11 | It only takes a few minutes . |
12 | It only takes a few minutes . |
13 | It would only take a few minutes . ’ |
14 | It will only take a few minutes , certainly . |
15 | I think it should only take a few minutes to have you begging me to make love to you … ’ |
16 | The ambulance only took a few minutes , but it seemed like hours . |
17 | They dive into the mist and vanish , only to reappear a few minutes later , some considerable distance away . |
18 | The exclusion only lasted a few minutes , but it seemed a lifetime to her . |
19 | Occasionally they would get a little wary and move out of the swim but only to return a few minutes later to the area that they had apparently cleared for spawning . |
20 | they could only snatch a few minutes together from time to time , usually when Daddy came over to Low Fields to look after the cattle , or during the haytiming . |
21 | Beryl said , ‘ Just wait a few minutes , Adam , till we 've got this cleared up . ’ |
22 | Nobody will mind if he just grabs a few minutes ' rest before he moves on — although rest , for Pavel , has become little more than a bothersome physical requirement with no spiritual element in it . |
23 | The effect of the collar and the cameo were remarkable , as Helen herself had dispassionately noted a few minutes before in her mirror : they made her look softer , prettier and younger . |
24 | The message probably arrived a few minutes after we left . |
25 | The Blessed Sacrament Chapel is in a small room just inside the Presbytery door and to it come over a hundred people who give an hour of their time a week to ‘ watch ’ but there are countless others who come in just for a minute or two and there find a few minutes of silence and prayer . |
26 | His mate , driver Sam Webster , gave him a smile of approval and said , ‘ Good lad , young John , now put your injector on , shut it off when you 've got nearly a full ‘ glass ’ , then have a few minutes . |