11.   It is not always possible to answer post by return, or to return telephone calls within the next few minutes.

12.   Shiona would never forget the next few minutes when the two of them had arrived in the big sunny sitting-room.

13.   The next minute she was leaping up from the bed, striding across the room and snatching the door open.

14.   The next minute Guido was out of the car and the young woman was in his arms, kissing him on both cheeks, obviously delighted to see him.

15.   The next minute he was kissing her and she was kissing him back, her fingers in his hair, her breath sobbing in her throat.

16.   I would have thought it was obvious to anyone that he never thinks further than the pleasures of the next few minutes.

17.   Leith spent the next few minutes in a panic.

18.   They spent the next few minutes getting themselves and the canoe off the water.

19.   Then there is the wonderful world of electronic mail, by which this column will pop up in the North Bridge computer within the next few minutes.

20.   That was burning and the next minute that was black.