Example sentences of "a few minutes [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Just a few minutes ago Lou Macari left the court buildings with his wife Dale , and his solicitor Stephen Pollard , who made this statement . |
2 | For a few minutes longer Isabel tried to sort out hard facts from vague suspicions , with little success . |
3 | ‘ That 's what we planned , ’ she agreed , and a few minutes later Cicely was talking of leaving for the hospital in half an hour . |
4 | A few minutes later Nathan jumped down into the cockpit once more and hauled out the roller-reefed headsail . |
5 | A few minutes later Romany pulled off the tarpaulin . |
6 | A few minutes later Branco sent a typically fiendish Brazilian free-kick dipping and swerving past the wall and Van Breukelen , who rarely encountered anything like this in his Nottingham Forest days , punched the ball clear without knowing much about it . |
7 | A few minutes later Chantal gunned the monstrous Harley Davidson out of the apartment block courtyard , with D'Arcy astride the pillion . |
8 | A few minutes later Sophie placed the tray on the low table beside Joanna and began to discuss the news of Helen 's engagement , but Joanna showed very little interest . |
9 | A few minutes later music drones from his room . |
10 | A few minutes later Agnes was hurrying across the yard with the fresh linen in her arms , making for the house at the end of the square , when a man passing along the pavement glanced at her , then stopped and , raising his hat , said , ‘ Good afternoon , ’ and stepped towards her . |
11 | A few minutes later Ben won his , assisted by a 3.11 m.p.s. wind . |
12 | He turned to talk to me , but a few minutes later Ben was arguing about another of Will 's plays . |
13 | A few minutes later Murray turned into the Sports Centre and Richard continued towards the House in merciful solitude . |
14 | When the temperature cooled down a few minutes later Gallacher headed to the referee 's dressing room to apologise . |
15 | A few minutes later Marcus was sitting in the bathroom before a washbasin ( the water was hot ) with a towel over his chest and his face covered with shaving cream . |
16 | A few minutes later Luch drifted in from the castle . |
17 | USA hooker Tony Flay had to be replaced following an ugly facial cut and a few minutes later replacement hooker Pat Johnson had his nose broken by a punch . |
18 | A few minutes later Mr Saleb emerged . |
19 | A few minutes later Wayne McDowell , he played the ball out to brother Gary again , whose hard low cross was scrambled clear by the Almondsbury defence to back to Wayne McDowell whose lob shot ended up resting in the top of the netting . |
20 | A few minutes later Sandy opened her eyes and turned her head slowly towards them . |
21 | Just a few minutes later French was released on bail pending an appeal . |
22 | A few minutes later Benjamin joined me . |
23 | A few minutes later Silas led Lucy into the office , where he checked the telephone 's answering device for messages , then , having unhooked it from the phone , he said , ‘ There you are — it 's all yours . ’ |
24 | A few minutes later Pet was back . |
25 | A few minutes later Endill caught another glimpse of it in the distance . |
26 | A secretary showed me into an ornately furnished drawing room and a few minutes later Sir George came in . |
27 | A few minutes later Sir Richard came down , closely followed by Lady Isabella and Buckingham . |
28 | Rachel walked out on to the main road a few minutes later feeling overwhelmed with guilt . |
29 | A few minutes earlier Ruth would have welcomed the idea of everyone going off to sleep ( not that Sean showed any sign of doing so ) as an opportunity for her to indulge in her own thoughts , but the fits of uninhibited laughter had restored her to something nearer to normality , and at last she was present with her companions in mind as well as in the flesh . |