Example sentences of "[num] minutes for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If so , the meeting can proceed ; otherwise , the usual practice is for the meeting to wait a maximum of 15 to 30 minutes for a quorum to assemble . |
| 2 | Many queued for up to 30 minutes for a chance to add their signature . |
| 3 | Originally edited down to 22 minutes for a half-hour TV show ( the other eight minutes being time for adverts and credits ) , Havis and his team had so much fascinating footage left over it was incorporated back in to produce this more detailed full-length video . |
| 4 | Although Thompson , the hooker , was sin-binned for 10 minutes for a foul in a tackle on Platt , Wakefield were never troubled and two minutes after he departed Wilson dribbled past a swarm of defenders to score by the posts . |
| 5 | It took three minutes for a plain-clothes policeman to reach the booths , but all were empty . |
| 6 | Manjrekar , who in the first Test struggled for 36 minutes for a duck , batted nine minutes short of five hours before India , 31 ahead on first innings , declared at 312–8 . |
| 7 | The boot was on the other foot however when the President 's wife Naina kept Norma Major waiting 25 minutes for a lunch date at the Savoy . |
| 8 | The incident last weekend happened just a few hundred yards from Bishop Auckland ambulance station , but it took 25 minutes for a vehicle to arrive from Durham City 12 miles away . |
| 9 | Staff at St Heliers in Carshalton say doors were left unlocked for up to ten minutes for an emergency patient to be admitted , but Union officials say security is sloppy . |
| 10 | Tommy Weir , 66 , of Walker Street , in Fauldhouse , West Lothian , died last Thursday of a heart attack after waiting more than 50 minutes for an ambulance which had been sent to Falkirk by mistake . |
| 11 | Clap your hands once every five minutes for a fortnight , to keep hungry birds off . |
| 12 | 11.00 : Break for five minutes for a cup of coffee . |
| 13 | Five minutes for a job like that . |
| 14 | I looked at my watch instead and stopped every fifteen minutes for a rest . |
| 15 | Because Hector 's dolphins can not hold their breath for long and dives rarely exceed 2 minutes ( compared with up to 8 minutes for a bottlenose dolphin ) , entanglement in a set-net is usually fatal . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Spurs had Stewart booked after 87 minutes for a foul on Rogers . |
| 18 | It takes just two minutes for a burglar to turn a home into a nightmare — in the city of Gloucester police are being called up to twelve times a day by families finding scenes like these . |
| 19 | ‘ It was so late when we finished yesterday that I queued up for 20 minutes for a takeaway hamburger , ’ he said . |
| 20 | They had to wait 20 minutes for a train to take them back the way they 'd just come from , then hire cabs to return to the Five Ways area . |