Example sentences of "was only [art] [det] minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her flat was only a few minutes ' walk away from the station . |
| 2 | It was only a few minutes ' walk to her office in Aldersgate Street ; but she normally did not arrive there till nine . |
| 3 | It was only a few minutes . |
| 4 | As soon as the casing was in position at stage 2 , it was only a few minutes work to pull the cables through the casing and fix the capping . |
| 5 | They had heard that they sold them in Clery 's , and that was only a few minutes from where the bus stopped when it went to Dublin . |
| 6 | As it was only a few minutes before the shop closed , he forbore to detail the checkout girl with his usual badinage about the finer points of philosophy or astrophysics . |
| 7 | At Godstowe Priory Dame Frances was only a few minutes away from death . |
| 8 | He was only a few minutes late having been caught in traffic on a motorway . |
| 9 | The house was only a few minutes ' drive away from the river . |
| 10 | It was only a few minutes before we decided on the Bell . |