Example sentences of "[adv] a minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sit down a minute , ’ said Simon . |
| 2 | ‘ Let me sit down a minute , ’ I begged . |
| 3 | Aggie drew in a long breath , bowed her head slightly and said , ‘ Aye , I know you did , love ; but come and sit down a minute . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Dr Russell phoned down a minute ago , ’ the nurse said . |
| 5 | Si sit down a minute love |
| 6 | Put your hands down a minute . |
| 7 | Sit down a minute . |
| 8 | That 's it , now sit down a minute ! |
| 9 | Yeah , jump down a minute Anthy |
| 10 | Sit down a minute |
| 11 | on my er lesson before my test , and he said just push the brake down a minute and I did and he said oh , you try it again , yeah , oh , hang on a minute , he fiddled about some more and he said right now do it again ah right that 's working now . |
| 12 | Sit down a minute . |
| 13 | They stood there for perhaps a minute , wondering what to do . |
| 14 | In a few seconds — it had been perhaps a minute in all since I had lost sight of them — I was standing under the tree , on an unrevealing carpet of shrivelled carats . |
| 15 | He read in silence for perhaps a minute , and then turned the scroll over to examine minutely the seal on the obverse . |
| 16 | It takes only a minute or two to wrap a band of netting supported by three or four canes around the plant , threading one cane through generously overlapping ends to keep the band in place . |
| 17 | X-ray diffraction ( XRD ) analysis ( see glossary ) is ideally suited to this sort of problem as it requires only a minute sample and , most important , it identifies the mineral or compound present . |
| 18 | These are auteurist trailers like the preview for Mystery Train which accurately reflects Jarmusch 's cinema of slow dissolves and drifting pans , and is only a minute long perfect , the minimal trailer . |
| 19 | If the surface of the earth was covered to a depth of one metre in protein molecules , each one different from every other one , and if each molecule changed into another one once a second , and had done so since the origin of the earth , there would have been time to try out only a minute fraction of the possible sequences . |
| 20 | He equalised only a minute after Chelsea had taken the lead when Wise , at the far post , had stabbed in an aimless Stuart cross after 26 minutes . |
| 21 | These rubber Hammers failed to respond even when Allen marked his transfer from one club to the other with a spectacular , 27th minute shot that cancelled out Wise 's rather streaky opening goal for Chelsea only a minute earlier . |
| 22 | Modern harbourside developments are increasingly popular.At Admiral 's Quay in Falmouth , part of the old waterfront , six flats and four houses in Phase I are new and only a minute 's walk from the town . |
| 23 | With a new lease of energy I reached the top only a minute or two after them . |
| 24 | As the last wave periscoped up , with only a minute or so left in the heat , Pottz knew he had to take it : he needed a fourth wave to beat Carroll . |
| 25 | That lasted only a minute though , so I tipped the wheelbarrow on its side and hauled the dead weight to the second track , which proved even worse than the first . |
| 26 | Benefits were low because only a minute proportion of copulations result in a reared cub in the next generation ( Journal of Zoology , vol 177 , p 463 ) . |
| 27 | In fact , Royal Oak equalised after only a minute when Finch 's cross came to Clinton Ford who scored with a snap shot . |
| 28 | After only a minute or so he got up and said , without looking at me , ‘ All right . |
| 29 | It was clean , relatively well-furnished , and only a minute from the Gare du Nord , although the purple palm tree wallpaper took some getting used to . |
| 30 | ‘ Low battery ’ , for instance , is a warning that you have only a minute or so of battery-time left before you will have to stop the shoot to allow the battery to be changed or recharged . |