Example sentences of "a few minutes [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He recovered fully but had repeated transient ischaemic symptoms affecting the right arm lasting a few minutes despite aspirin therapy , with twenty episodes occurring during 6 months . |
| 2 | Quick action is vital , since anyone who stops breathing can usually live for only a few minutes without help . |
| 3 | But first he would have a few minutes of self-indulgence . |
| 4 | What will be a few minutes of footage on the screen took all day to film . |
| 5 | Within a few minutes of galactosides being added to the medium , the genes are switched on , and enzymes appear . |
| 6 | A few minutes of air time on a small radio station ? |
| 7 | The Blessed Sacrament Chapel is in a small room just inside the Presbytery door and to it come over a hundred people who give an hour of their time a week to ‘ watch ’ but there are countless others who come in just for a minute or two and there find a few minutes of silence and prayer . |
| 8 | There were a few minutes of silence as everyone concentrated on their food . |
| 9 | This was followed by a few minutes of silence . |
| 10 | I 've nothing against these two teams , but to be deprived of the euphoric English faces after only a few minutes of joy and achievement was an insult . |
| 11 | Last autumn he came within a few minutes of death when he slashed his wrists with a razor blade . |
| 12 | Drying time : wearable within the hour after drying in a warm room — if you do n't mind a few minutes of clamminess at the obvious places where the material is thicker such as the pockets and waistband . |
| 13 | It became the Chancellor 's habit to interrupt his morning procession to work for a few minutes of Cabinet Room conversation with the Prime Minister . |
| 14 | A few minutes of television time was so precious . |
| 15 | After a few minutes of practise , subjects adapt and are able to compensate for this distortion . |
| 16 | At first people will endorse General Morgan as ‘ king of Somalia ’ but , a few minutes into discussion , the truth is out . |
| 17 | My reason is that George spent a few minutes with Lennie , comforting and making him a happy man by reminding him of his dreams , before sending him off to find his final dream in heaven . |
| 18 | She was familiar enough with the garden by this time to return in only a few minutes with sheafs of colourful tropical blooms , and she arranged them in two big vases to make riotously informal bunches of colour that lacked classical form but would , she hoped , be pleasing to Faye 's artistic eye . |
| 19 | After a few minutes with Mr Malik , Robert himself quite often felt like making the frighteningly short journey from doubt to belief . |
| 20 | It took a few minutes for Curtis and Adrian to realise their baby had disappeared . |
| 21 | The results suggested that the half-life of these complexes was short , in the range of a few minutes for P A2b and of 10–20 seconds for P A3 , since the DNA-strand opening was undetectable at both promoters after a 10 minutes challenge and , in the case of P A3 , considerably reduced after a 15 seconds challenge ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 22 | So on that very depressing note , er I 'll leave we 've got a few minutes for questions or objections if anyone wants to , we 've got some head shaking . |
| 23 | Similarly , the clock on the front of the American Bulletin of Atomic Scientists stood at a few minutes to midnight , but the American government did not heed it . |
| 24 | I shall deal mainly with the latter subject , but I intend to spend just a few minutes on education . |
| 25 | This striking result led to further investigations , and it was noticed that one drop of the diluted nasal mucus added to 1 c.c. of a thick suspension of the cocci caused their complete disappearance in a few minutes at 37°C . |
| 26 | I remember that I left my bag on the table for a few minutes at coffee time in the afternoon . ’ |
| 27 | Shiona 's plane touched down at Glasgow airport just a few minutes before midday the following day . |
| 28 | Tommy asked when the duty corporal entered the barracks a few minutes before lights out . |
| 29 | With full-back Ian Hunter not appearing Cumbria were in doubt about their line-up until a few minutes before kick-off , but showed no signs of uncertainty when the action began , winning a penalty from their first attack . |
| 30 | Sandison could not be sure how much Maidstone had had to drink that day — it was still a few minutes before noon — but he knew that he was sober enough to understand fully what was going on . |