Example sentences of "[adj] minutes ' [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet , ever since they had returned to New York , Laura had barely had more than a few minutes ' private conversation with her husband . |
| 2 | A few minutes ' facial sauna , however , is fine because it warms the skin just enough to facilitate absorption . |
| 3 | This would force some leading figures , like Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown , to fight for a few minutes ' speaking time from the floor — or keep quiet . |
| 4 | After a few minutes ' silent reflection , however , I saw that the difficulty arose because we had read the phrase in quite different ways . |
| 5 | The Central Electoral Commission criticized television coverage of this and other Civic Forum and PAV rallies , and ordered that all other parties be given 10 minutes ' extra air time to compensate . |
| 6 | Took on Liverpool after with just 45 minutes ' first-team football . |
| 7 | There is no outside view of any sort and the only time they leave the cell is for weekend visits from relatives , bi-daily showers or for 45 minutes ' daily exercise . |
| 8 | Jason McCreadie and his mate Matthew Hanna , sweating profusely after 90 minutes ' non-stop dancing to the techno rhythms , pull up chairs and open their rucksack . |
| 9 | Each cassette for Europe will run for 60 minutes ; customers in the US and Japan will get 90 minutes ' playing time , However companies hope to extend this to four hours . |
| 10 | She meant , after ten minutes ' solemn consideration , to write that she was extremely sorry , and entirely responsible for the change of plan , but she could not now sit for him . |
| 11 | Two of his partners protested promptly that the said Susy was fully deployed on their cases , and Peter Yeo settled down to reorganize the workload , emerging after ten minutes ' hard negotiation with more or less the conclusion he had wanted . |
| 12 | So you had ten minutes ' free time , a type of reward , if you like , for paying attention and getting on with it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The most profitable lunch is an apple , a glass of water and twenty minutes ' fresh air taken with some gentle exercise |
| 15 | So here I am extolling the worth of twenty minutes ' silent meditation as a means of renewing and refreshing your channels . |
| 16 | No more than two minutes ' flying time later , we can reconfirm our position from the high ( 200ft ) power lines crossing a main road immediately underneath us . |