Example sentences of "a few minutes [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the prime minister arrives at the Palace for the weekly audience , the private secretary acts as host and spends a few minutes beforehand in conversation . |
| 2 | The announcements made by the Minister for Overseas Development a few minutes ago about the food situation were welcome , but people in Africa are starving and the terms of trade that they receive in their dealings with the developed countries , the problem of their huge indebtedness to the developed countries and the world order over which we now preside are such that hundreds of millions of people live on the edge of catastrophe . |
| 3 | Below it flows the Dorn , known to the Saxons as the Milk , from the cloudiness of its water after rain : and one still sees it as the Saxons saw it a thousand years ago , as I saw it a few minutes ago in the thin rain drifting down from the Cotswolds . |
| 4 | Andrew Beattie was allowed a visit by his wife for a few minutes around half-past one and for the first time he learned that no strike organisers had been arrested other than in the Rathcoole district . |
| 5 | He says the victim was walking to her home just a few minutes away along a very busy street . |
| 6 | Tonight there was a moon , starlight even , and he knew that after a few minutes away from the house it would be possible for her to see with surprising clarity ; but moon or no moon , it seemed to make little difference to her and she 'd been spending hours abroad at even the deepest , darkest point in the cycle . |
| 7 | At Godstowe Priory Dame Frances was only a few minutes away from death . |
| 8 | She stood there until he went quiet , stayed a few minutes longer to be certain and only then returned to her cupboard bedroom next to the servants ' loft . |
| 9 | Reporters for ITN were getting the results a few minutes ahead of the announcement , by asking the candidates . |
| 10 | The ‘ false ’ bus , used for escaping refugees , is carrying Michael ( Paul Newman ) and Sarah ( Julie Andrews ) , American scientists on the run from the security police , to the comparative safety of East Berlin ; it has to keep a few minutes ahead of the real , scheduled bus , so in fact most of the shots out of the bus windows concentrate mainly on the distance between the two buses , gradually diminishing and so raising suspicion . |
| 11 | Mr Toubon 's appointment as Minister of Culture , made public just before 8pm on 30 March , was announced a few minutes later over the public address system at the Salon de Mars art fair , which had just opened — to widespread applause . |
| 12 | Occasionally they would get a little wary and move out of the swim but only to return a few minutes later to the area that they had apparently cleared for spawning . |
| 13 | She returned a few minutes later with an air of triumph , waving a folded map . |
| 14 | Off he goes and returns a few minutes later with friend and a dirty great Roller , all pristine chrome and gleaming fenders . |
| 15 | The attendant giggled and came back a few minutes later with another bowl of rice and chicken , which Myeloski despatched with his customary enthusiasm . |
| 16 | He left the cosy little restaurant to reappear a few minutes later with the announcement that her taxi was at the door and that he and Bob would go with her as far as her hotel . |
| 17 | Dieter went off and returned a few minutes later with the information that Marie-Claire never came in on a Wednesday because her children 's school was closed on that day . |
| 18 | He returned a few minutes later with the news that a room was available . |
| 19 | She hurried off and returned a few minutes later with a tiny white gown . |
| 20 | Nonetheless , he agreed ; the apothecary rose and disappeared into the back room , emerging a few minutes later with a small leather bag . |
| 21 | She returned a few minutes later with an explanation that medicine was being prepared for me . |
| 22 | He went indoors and returned a few minutes later with the shoe box . |
| 23 | Spanswick , 50 , returned a few minutes later with a mash hammer and delivered blows to Mr Curren 's hands as he tried to protect himself . |
| 24 | And came running back in stark terror a few minutes later as if all the hounds of hell were after him , and Preston , who thought they were , a half-length behind all the way back to the alley behind their two houses where they stopped to get their breath back before they went in . |
| 25 | Ib 's Club was similar to the others she 'd visited , but more so , Gina decided a few minutes later as wearily she followed Rune into its depths : deeper , darker , more packed , the music more rawly evocative . |
| 26 | When Carter a few minutes later in the debate said , ‘ I asked my ( eight-year-old ) daughter Amy last night what she thought … ’ , what the audience heard was : ‘ I 'd better try to find a warm human illustration before it 's too late . ’ |
| 27 | The second exploded a few minutes later in a wastebin in Cavendish Square , where the store 's 1,500 staff usually gather during safety drills . |
| 28 | However , a few minutes later in spontaneous conversation , he produced the following utterance : |
| 29 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 30 | The coffee arrived , followed a few minutes later by two tall and thin men who introduced themselves and led the Glovers to another room , barely identifiable as an office except for one discreet filing cabinet . |