Example sentences of "[num] minutes for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took only eight minutes for Portadown to take the lead . |
| 2 | Check after 30 minutes for leaks |
| 3 | Follow instructions in the cottage re water on and off ( arrival/departure ) — and allow about 30 minutes for tanks to drain fully before departure — always slower than one thinks ! |
| 4 | Montgomerie was kept waiting 30 minutes for Lyle to finish and he said : ‘ That gave Sandy a big advantage . |
| 5 | By the time the eighth wicket went down the lead was already 264 , so perhaps it was unkind of Baptiste and Holding to hammer 150 in 113 minutes for West Indies ' ninth wicket record against England . |
| 6 | Barnes played his first game since rupturing an achilles tendon on England duty five months ago when he completed 45 minutes for Liverpool 's A-team against Tranmere Rovers at Melwood on Saturday . |
| 7 | Went across and started up it , had to stop every three minutes for puffs . |
| 8 | The place was heaving when we arrived ; there must have been a thousand people squashed into the confines of the Blue Angel club , all waiting to do three minutes for Les Cox and his production team , sitting invisibly beyond the strong footlights on the small stage . |
| 9 | After allowing between 45 and 90 minutes for incorporation of labelled amino acid into protein , anaesthesia was induced and biopsies of rectal mucosa or tumour were taken immediately , through a sigmoidoscope ( therefore the patient was anesthetised for only five minutes of the 45–90 minute period available for incorporation of isotope ) . |
| 10 | You both took at least ninety minutes for lunch . |
| 11 | Northern Ireland international Magilton , who had given Oxford the lead from the penalty spot , went after 58 minutes for retaliation after being fouled by Paul Raynor . |
| 12 | Brazilian Nogueira headed Marinos ahead from a free-kick in the 32nd minute but compatriot Jorginho set up Grampus ' equaliser after 77 minutes for Shigeo Sawairi . |
| 13 | The Cambridge substitutes , Paul Raynor and Steve Claridge , combined to set up the opening goal after 64 minutes for Mike Norbury . |
| 14 | She allowed herself ten minutes for Nigel and Adrian to get clear of the hotel before slipping her arms into a grey mohair jacket , collecting her shoulder-bag and slipping quietly out of the hotel . |
| 15 | ‘ But you can only have ten minutes for breakfast ! ’ |
| 16 | If your life is so rushed that you only have five to ten minutes for lunch , and your body knows that you have to consume at least 300–400 calories in order to make it through until the evening , it is going to look for a very convenient solution , and that means , high calorie , low volume food that is readily available , such as a chunky cheese sandwich , or worse still , a chocolate bar . |
| 17 | ‘ Ten minutes for refreshment ’ 1892 : passengers bolt their lunch at York station buffet prior to reboarding , in the days before buffet cars were provided . |
| 18 | presented a ‘ grid ’ file that performs particularly well when the number of search attributes is ten or less , and offers a high data storage utilization , good growth characteristics and efficient processing of range queries ; Stanfill and Kahle explain the principles of a parallel free-text search on a particular parallel computer , and claim a retrieval speed of 2 — 3 minutes for Boolean queries of 25 and 20000 terms respectively when the database in question takes up 15 Gbytes of storage space . |
| 19 | It took us about two minutes to get into the basement flat , about five minutes for Nicola to shake off the giggles and about another five for me to brief her as to what to say . |
| 20 | ‘ Do we have enough air ? ’ ; through controlling proceedings : ‘ I 'll be talking for ten minutes , with five minutes for questions at the end ’ ; and through acting as guide to the presentation , by commenting on the route , ‘ So that 's my second point . |
| 21 | The level of interest requires that presentations must be limited to 30 minutes per paper , which should include five minutes for questions . |
| 22 | Arsenal needed just seventeen minutes for Merson to break the deadlock , two minutes before the break , Dixon made it two nil . |
| 23 | And we had er two hours off during the day , er and twenty minutes for dinner and er about twenty minutes for tea . |
| 24 | And we had er two hours off during the day , er and twenty minutes for dinner and er about twenty minutes for tea . |
| 25 | Blood samples were collected every 15 minutes for gastrin determination and the plasma stored at -20°C . |
| 26 | Secretions were obtained for 60 minutes for estimation of basal acid output . |
| 27 | After this , pentagastrin ( 6 µg/kg ) was administered subcutaneously and gastric juice was collected for a further 60 minutes for estimation of maximal and peak acid output . |
| 28 | It took Wolves 15 seconds to bring a Black Country barrage from the stands with their first , booming aerial ‘ pass ’ for Bull to pursue ; a further 30 seconds for Villa to concede a corner ; and two minutes for Nigel Spink to be forced into a sprawling save by Mark Venus . |
| 29 | ‘ One Saturday we were kept waiting for TWO MINUTES for Science Now on Radio 4 which then ran its full 30 minutes . |
| 30 | IT TOOK perhaps two minutes for Glenn Miller to line up his shot . |