Example sentences of "[num] minutes to spare " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steven dreams of driving his car swiftly and effortlessly over thrilling lanes and highways … not realizing how Saturday will come , no present bought for Pervert and Queen , will have to leap into car , 11.08 Saturday morning , claw through Saturday traffic to near place of work , double-park car , run into weathered antique shop , snatch slightly unsuitable rococo frame from shelf , pay with desperate ACCESS he was trying to cut down on , emerge , tear ticket from windscreen , drive recklessly home , fling frame at Claire , discover best shirt in fact dirty and get to wedding with three minutes to spare … |
| 2 | Three minutes to spare . |
| 3 | The final stage between Cresswell and Burslem gave us a few anxious moments when Dave and Richard became ensnared in City Centre traffic but they managed to complete the 24 hour Tour de Matthey with 5 minutes to spare ! |
| 4 | Knott did his best with another fifty but it was all over with eighty minutes to spare ; all out 203 and victory by 231 runs . |
| 5 | Not true — with curlers to hand and just ten minutes to spare , any short style can be given a shot of glamour . |
| 6 | If you have five minutes to spare , plug in Super Mario and spend half an hour trying to rescue the princess ! |
| 7 | ‘ Have you got five minutes to spare ? |
| 8 | We arrived at all of the locations in good time , although the traffic in Stoke did put us under a little pressure towards the end , we finished with a whole five minutes to spare ! |
| 9 | Brian Deane conjured up a Leeds winner with five minutes to spare after crisis club Manchester City had staged a spirited fightback at Elland Road . |
| 10 | Trish I 've got a patient for you Trish if you 've got five minutes to spare please . |
| 11 | They make the Bahamas plane with twenty minutes to spare . |
| 12 | She arrived with twenty minutes to spare before her train was due to leave but , after she had queued for a ticket , was only just in time to catch it . |
| 13 | After a good night 's sleep , we arrived at breakfast with about 15 minutes to spare , and eventually set off for Hungary where we were due to stay the night with a Weymouth girl married to a Hungarian and is living in Gyor . |
| 14 | He boarded the express with two minutes to spare . |
| 15 | got home late last night — left N. at 2.30 which was 1.30pm our time and then got , just — with literally only about four minutes to spare once he had rung me , the 6pm train from Kings Cross . |
| 16 | With four minutes to spare , Haringey gets a rate-56% higher than last year . |