Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] a few minutes " in BNC.
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1 | Scratches made only a few minutes before . |
2 | When the temperature cooled down a few minutes later Gallacher headed to the referee 's dressing room to apologise . |
3 | He woke up a few minutes later . |
4 | The attendant giggled and came back a few minutes later with another bowl of rice and chicken , which Myeloski despatched with his customary enthusiasm . |
5 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
6 | In total , Pippin and PJ spent only a few minutes under the lights and had a lots of praise and Bonios afterwards . |
7 | There the young ladies ' brother found me , when he returned home a few minutes later , and he insisted , much against the housekeeper 's wishes , on bringing me into the house . |
8 | The descent took only a few minutes , but then the man had to make a laborious return journey with the empty sledge , which might take half an hour . |
9 | It took only a few minutes to pack their belongings . |
10 | It took only a few minutes for the Doctor to break down and analyse the strangely oily powder , using the lateral molecular rectifier to be absolutely certain . |
11 | It took only a few minutes to run to the kitchen and request Agnes Diggory to take Lady Merchiston 's luncheon tray straight upstairs when it was ready , and then Theda passed out of the house into the early warmth of a sunny April day , Hector charging ahead . |
12 | The map shown in Figure 4.1 took only a few minutes to produce , and is easily amended and redrawn . |
13 | Coventry is the home of several major attractions including the world famous Museum of British Road Transport located only a few minutes drive away near the city centre . |
14 | Shrewsbury have got to make sure as much as possible when they do win the ball in the they do n't just smash long balls up , because as l as soon as they do that and as long as they keep doing that , Blackburn just pick up the ball again and keep coming at them , they 've got to try like they did just a few minutes ago , try and play themselves out of defence with nice low passes . |
15 | One point to remember , incidentally , is that in those days all recordings were played at 78 rpm , so each side ran only a few minutes . |
16 | A warning was given but residents had only a few minutes to get out before the blast rocked their houses . |
17 | Each individual hearing lasted only a few minutes and none of the accused was allowed legal representation . |
18 | He was not allowed legal representation and the proceedings , held in camera , reportedly lasted only a few minutes . |
19 | A short downpour drenched us , but it lasted only a few minutes . |
20 | The drive lasted only a few minutes . |
21 | Whilst the earliest phase lasted only a few minutes after the training trial , and the intermediate ones declined within the hour , long-term memory seemed to build up slowly over the first hour after training , and protein synthesis inhibitors would no longer disrupt it if they were administered more than an hour after the training ( Figure 10.1 ) |
22 | She added : ‘ Police had just a few minutes to evacuate thousands of people . ’ |
23 | The match , which kicked off a few minutes later than its scheduled 10.15 start time , ended on a bizarre note seven minutes into injury time at 12.15am . |
24 | ‘ I thought , ’ he said calmly a few minutes later , ‘ we had agreed not to discuss the past . ’ |
25 | I waited around a few minutes and had a chance to talk with Tony Dorigo and met his mother who works in the Digital office in Birmingham . |
26 | The concluding rounds of the peace negotiations , which had been held sporadically over the past 20 months , began under UN auspices in Mexico on Nov. 25 following the declaration of a unilateral FMLN ceasefire on Nov. 16 and recommenced in New York on Dec. 16 ; Pérez de Cuéllar , whose term of office expired only a few minutes after the signature of the agreement , had made the issue of peace in El Salvador a personal crusade . |
27 | Showing no emotion , he remained only a few minutes before turning away . |
28 | Granville emphasized just a few minutes ago , anything to do with the quality system is not a Moses job . |