He reappeared a few minutes later preceded by Linda.

The modern converter achieves saturation within 10-15 minutes due to the high degree of pulverization preceding the sterilization phase, whereas older models required up to several hours to saturate and sterilize the same load.

Forty three minutes of crass, artless thumping of a ball, just shaded by Wimbledon by virtue of Young's header being cleared off the line by Keen, preceded the first flare-up.

Also, in the minutes preceding a tsunami strike, the sea often recedes temporarily from the coast.

Two witnesses who testified yesterday - the store's manager and its mechanic, both of whom were present during the robbery - said that in the minutes preceding the shooting, the two brothers and Mr. Bennett, who is being tried separately, entered the store and browsed.

In the minutes immediately preceding the accident, luggage and parcels fell from racks above the seats.

During the 15 minutes of speeches preceding the program, the United States Postal Service formally unveiled its Leonard Bernstein stamp, although the ceremony was nearly over before anyone thought to tell the representative from the postal service's board of governors how to pronounce Bernstein's name.

The jury said it wanted to hear their descriptions of the shooting, which occurred in Mr. Williams's master bedroom, and the few minutes preceding it.