Example sentences of "[vb pp] within minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case the offender was caught within minutes , his movements watched from a central control room a mile away . |
| 2 | Two pubs were attacked within minutes by a gang armed with a pick-axe . |
| 3 | If the fish was fresh it was because it had been deep frozen within minutes of being caught and packed up to be bought by her goodness only knew how many months later for Mark 's Lenten supper . |
| 4 | A violent headache can be safely dissolved within minutes without having to resort to aspirin or paracetamol with their accompanying side-effects . |
| 5 | Two other Protestant men were shot within minutes of the attack . |
| 6 | It can be done within minutes . ’ |
| 7 | A voice synthesiser continuously speaks to the unauthorised driver warning that Autoseeker has been activated , the police alerted and that the vehicle will be automatically disabled within minutes . |
| 8 | A Home Office pathologist told the hearing that the brothers would have died within minutes after the self-locking freezer door shut on them . |
| 9 | The district was sinister enough at any time ; now , with the feeling that any and every form of menace , from a cut-throat to a coal-hole , might be within inches for all I could tell , my small remaining resource of courage were exhausted within minutes . |
| 10 | On the most recent occasion , supervisor Melvyn Relly had his vehicle stolen within minutes of arriving at the office , and with faint hope of success , Nick Graham , surveyor , drove Melvyn out to where the last car was recovered along streets neighbouring the Nottingham office . |
| 11 | Forty pickets were arrested within minutes as the police emptied out of their coaches and were ordered to pile into the pickets , hem them in either side of the factory gate and arrest anyone who stepped off the pavement . |
| 12 | He was arrested within minutes of making the calls . |
| 13 | DISASTER struck within minutes of the jumbo 's take-off at 18.22 on Sunday . |
| 14 | The atmosphere became charged within minutes of their arrival and the day was spent in frantic dashes , nerve-shattering band calls , fraught costume fittings and infuriating sound checks , so by the time I booked into my Albany Hotel suite at 6 o'clock I felt exhausted . |
| 15 | The hostages , who were held for 444 days following the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran in September 1979 , were released within minutes of Reagan being sworn in as President on Jan. 21 , 1981 . |
| 16 | The jury returned within minutes , finding both men guilty . |
| 17 | Photographic memories apart , most people forget about 50% of what they 've read within minutes of putting the book down , and 80% of it within twenty-four hours . |