Example sentences of "few minutes [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Outside the wind grew even more savage and we cut short the one doomed attempt to raise the tent , retreating to the truck for a few minutes of poor slumber . |
2 | To think a few minutes of thoughtless pleasure could end in this . |
3 | Ice fishing , I find , is as cold as anything I have ever tried in the Arctic , and after a few minutes of unproductive ass-freezing I pack it in . |
4 | No , each hitch was only temporary — and the few minutes of unplanned stillness was welcomed by photographers . |
5 | Some of them will be practising meditation exercises before they swoop down the ramp from a platform to begin their few minutes of profound torture . |
6 | A few minutes of silent shuffling brought them to a junction . |
7 | Current single ‘ My Rising Star ’ walks the tightrope of twee and reaches the other side looking like Frank Bruno , a few minutes of charming soul where they set their sights beyond the mundane . |
8 | Current single ‘ My Rising Star ’ walks the tightrope of twee and reaches the other side looking like Frank Bruno , a few minutes of charming soul where they set their sights beyond the mundane . |
9 | In strictly layman 's terms , the amount of additional engine-weight and fuel that any supersonic aircraft could get off the ground would give a few minutes of sub-orbital time , if that . |
10 | After drinks and introductions and a few minutes of jangled smalltalk , as if the three of us were gods or apes or spacemen , Fielding did the bad thing . |
11 | A few minutes of brief activity later , he was on his way again , the needle climbing steadily till it was hovering on the 120 m.p.h. mark . |
12 | It may be difficult to explain why a few minutes spent reading fourteen lines of Shakespeare should be a higher pleasure than reading an equivalent length of a James Bond story , but the analyses of literary criticism elucidate how in the former case one is living those few minutes in intensified awareness with an extraordinarily extended span , from the texture of the words sounding in one 's inner ear to the remotest implications for the living of one 's whole life . |
13 | She was merely an old woman who wanted to spend a few minutes in nostalgic memory of long-ago visits to America . |
14 | A worrying report , published by three teachers ' unions just a few minutes before national curriculum boss David Pascall issued his ‘ back to basics ’ clarion call , revealed a staggering 80,000 teachers — one in five — want to quit their jobs . |