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 | Clap your hands once every five minutes for a fortnight , to keep hungry birds off . |
10 | 11.00 : Break for five minutes for a cup of coffee . |
11 | Five minutes for a job like that . |
12 | I looked at my watch instead and stopped every fifteen minutes for a rest . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Spurs had Stewart booked after 87 minutes for a foul on Rogers . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | ‘ It was so late when we finished yesterday that I queued up for 20 minutes for a takeaway hamburger , ’ he said . |
18 | 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 . |