Example sentences of "be [art] few minutes [prep] " in BNC.

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1 What will be a few minutes of footage on the screen took all day to film .
2 There were a few minutes of silence as everyone concentrated on their food .
3 If we were lucky , there were a few minutes in the evening when the wind dropped , the dust storm subsided , and we could brave the mosquitoes and wash the corrosive dust from our bodies .
4 Whichever tree structure is chosen , the time taken to build the structure from an ASCII word list is a few minutes for approximately 70,000 words .
5 ‘ He thinks it was a few minutes after six . ’
6 The call was a few minutes in coming through — probably they had to look for Seddon at the other end .
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