Example sentences of "[det] minutes [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've had a splendid time , ’ she replied instead , and when some minutes later a taxi whisked them back to their hotel she felt it had been a dream of an evening . |
| 2 | Just a few minutes ago the ambulance carrying the two boys arrived at Stoke Mandeville . |
| 3 | He could not explain why he ran or why he and David abandoned a car a few minutes later a mile from the town centre . |
| 4 | As I was struggling down the yard with the fully laden bucket a few minutes later a neighbour , Mrs Woods , saw me . |
| 5 | So I hung around and , sure enough , a few minutes later a squad car turned up all its lights flashing . |
| 6 | A few minutes later a car drew up , its brakes screeching in the best SS fashion . |
| 7 | But just a few minutes later a playgroup worker found the baby lying on the tiled floor next to the pushchair . |
| 8 | A few minutes later a youth with a shattered left knee-cap was wheeled on a low-slung ambulance trolley into the Cleansing Theatre . |
| 9 | A few minutes later the company sergeant-major marched out of the tent to collect him . |
| 10 | To her surprise a few minutes later the taxi pulled up outside a fashion shop in one of the main city streets as the driver indicated she had reached her destination . |
| 11 | A few minutes later the ship saw us and turned . |
| 12 | A few minutes later the Doctor had reached the valley . |
| 13 | A few minutes later the train arrived in Duisburg and we got out . |
| 14 | A few minutes later the spaceship landed and I was home . |
| 15 | A few minutes later the spaceship was falling towards a planet covered with tall buildings . |
| 16 | After a few minutes more the conversation was beginning to flag . |
| 17 | A recent view is that a postsynaptic kinase is activated transiently ( for less than a few minutes following the tetanus ) and a presynaptic kinase is activated for longer periods ( but for less than 1 hour ) . |
| 18 | A few minutes earlier a JetRanger helicopter had lifted-off from Blackpool bound for Ronaldsway . |