Example sentences of "[num] minutes [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second division , Swansea away in the cup was never going to be an easy ticket for Oxford , but when Nick Cusack scored with just over 10 minutes to go at the Vetch Field , United looked a good bet for the 4th round . |
| 2 | It can take 10 minutes to get off the train . ’ |
| 3 | It takes only 10 minutes to get to the shops in the wheelchair . |
| 4 | The judge , who took just 45 minutes to decide on the sentences , said he accepted Fraser was a drug addict who had admitted what he had done . |
| 5 | Look , there 's three minutes to go before the news . |
| 6 | Once a week , Aunt Margaret defied the banging , popping , gangrenous , gas-flaring monster of the bathroom geyser all for Victoria 's sake , to give her a bath in three inches of snot-green , brackish , warmish water , which took ten minutes to trickle from the geyser 's brutish snout into the tub . |
| 7 | It took only ten minutes to get from the Hatton 's flat to Bailey Street where , at number ten , Jack Pertwee lived with his widowed father . |
| 8 | And with Speak overcoming a nervous start -he took 33 minutes to get off the mark to hit a string of boundaries , the pair put on 141 in less than 30 overs . |
| 9 | We did n't have to queue for food we waited five minutes to get into the car , we did n't have to queue for food or coffee , we ke , we did n't even get into very long lines too pay . |
| 10 | It took him another five minutes to get across the fact that no , he was not a doctor but yes , he was a friend , a very good friend . |
| 11 | Each year four million cervical smears are taken , and each one needs at least five minutes to check for the signs of disease . |
| 12 | They allowed you five minutes from your house to the tram-stop they had selected , and then five minutes to walk to the courts . |
| 13 | He managed this with the help of a flannel , some scented soap from England which he kept for special occasions and a kettleful of hot water that took five minutes to boil on the single electric ring that served as a cooker and , in winter , as a heater . |
| 14 | You will then need a further five minutes to look through the application form ( or application letter or c.v. ) of the next candidate , and to remind yourself of any particular questions which need to be asked as a result of what it contained . |
| 15 | No fewer than three railway stations offer a fast service to Paris ; and at night it takes only twenty minutes to drive from the town 's centre to the Etoile . |
| 16 | They were expected to take about twenty minutes to sink to the bottom . |
| 17 | It took us about two minutes to get into the basement flat , about five minutes for Nicola to shake off the giggles and about another five for me to brief her as to what to say . |
| 18 | For comparison purposes it is interesting to note that searching a sequential ASCII file using a standard Unix command ( grep ) takes approximately two minutes to look for the 22 words of the test sentence , not including all the alternative candidate strings for each of these word positions . |
| 19 | Because it is calculated that a retained crew might take four minutes to get to the station the computer calculated other stations could respond quicker . |
| 20 | Okay er we move on over six seven minutes to go before the end of the programme . |