Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] twenty minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police said 65-year-old James McQuaker left his house in Wellbeck Avenue at about 9pm to close and lock up the Haughton Road service station before returning home twenty minutes later with cash and credit vouchers . |
| 2 | cook about twenty minutes . |
| 3 | Te first breakdown came about twenty minutes into the play . |
| 4 | I tumbled out of bed , threw on my tracksuit and joined the others shivering outside on the gravel ; the Corporal kept us waiting about twenty minutes until the Sergeant arrived . |
| 5 | No fewer than three railway stations offer a fast service to Paris ; and at night it takes only twenty minutes to drive from the town 's centre to the Etoile . |
| 6 | As eating-time continues , the body sends out more and more satiety signals , but it is estimated that it takes about twenty minutes for a meal to have its full effect in filling our stomachs and sending out all the other physical signals of sufficiency . |
| 7 | With steelmaking they work in er two hundred and fifty tonnes roughly at a time , pour it in the basic oxygen steelmaking furnace , blow oxygen into the steel which takes about twenty minutes , then the steel with one or two other processes is basically ready to be used . |
| 8 | fix your diary , a lot of you were n't here last week , oh by the way P C is er coming along with a film , it broke down the other week , you all enjoyed the talk so I do hope you come along to see the film , it only takes about twenty minutes and it 's on er security , you know , it 's for your own benefit |
| 9 | Approximately one hour after the onset of sleep , rapid eye movements beneath the closed lids occur ( termed " paradoxical sleep " ) , usually lasting about twenty minutes . |
| 10 | It involves about twenty minutes of mild discomfort . |
| 11 | Then you came into this library to look at the books , spending perhaps twenty minutes here . |
| 12 | It may take only twenty minutes or as long as two hours before they find the monkeys and are sufficiently close to them to launch an attack . |
| 13 | And trains from Paddington into Oxford are running about twenty minutes late this evening , but I 've no specific problems to report from the buses . |
| 14 | Do n't try to hurry the programme of exercises , which should take about twenty minutes or so . |
| 15 | What we want to do in this session as I said it will only take about twenty minutes , there are three key things we want to do . |
| 16 | I 've only been standin' 'ere twenty minutes , 'aven' I ? |
| 17 | Manhandling the aeroplane down the slipway on an old flat-bed trolley , five of us took just twenty minutes to get the big beast bobbing happily on the briny . |
| 18 | According to the packet , the chicken Kievs only took about twenty minutes in a hot oven . |
| 19 | And a dozen of my military colleagues will arrive about twenty minutes beforehand . |
| 20 | Jerry informed me later , tearfully , that it had taken almost twenty minutes . |
| 21 | The latter comes at midprice and offers over twenty minutes ' extra music — but DC 's 1973 analogue recording is n't as ripe and sonorous as the new Chandos and exhibits a little tape hiss if played too loudly . |
| 22 | After a quick tidy-up they took the next train back to the Gare de Lyon where Monique had only twenty minutes to wait . |
| 23 | The regression itself will last approximately twenty minutes — the maximum length of time the human mind is able to concentrate sufficiently to allow it to take place . |
| 24 | Christine Baldwin , the Whistler 's fifth victim , had exactly twenty minutes to live . |
| 25 | no they take about twenty minutes with salt a little bit of salt , give them plenty of water so that |
| 26 | They were expected to take about twenty minutes to sink to the bottom . |
| 27 | The nurses topped it up again as soon as they realised but it took time to go through and have any effect so I had about twenty minutes of real labour pains . |
| 28 | The German shelling lasted about twenty minutes , one gun continued to fire , starting with a clear crack , then the sound of the shell passing over , followed by the explosion as it hit the ground . |
| 29 | The mortaring lasted about twenty minutes . |
| 30 | You have about twenty minutes , listen , to do this in your own way . |