Five, or sometimes six, European presidents or prime ministers spoke for two-and-a-half minutes each.
The next goal was vital and, with 10 second-half minutes gone, the home side crafted it.
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And within two-and-a-half minutes of Bothroyd's third goal in as many games, Cardiff were level.
Reds forward Jed Hooper scored a hat-trick in just 19 second-half minutes to seal the victory.
Twenty second-half minutes had passed before the crowd witnessed a truly threatening attempt at goal.
Inside eight second-half minutes, Lennard added a drop-goal of his own before two more penalties.
Prior to Balotelli's late spot kick the game burst to life in nine second half minutes.
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Again, I had a lot of people asking for a response to the two-and-a-half minutes.
The company will have a total of four-and-a-half minutes of advertising during the game.
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But second-placed Frankfurt pulled level with two goals inside two second half minutes from Stefan Aigner and Takashi Inui.
Panels put into Lakanal House in south-east London, which caught fire in 2009, had four-and-a-half minutes of fire resistance.
Sainz came closest this year but was nearly two-and-a-half minutes off the pace.
Instead, more than three-and-a-half minutes was spent on a report about teenage smoking - ahead of Wednesday's national no-smoking day.
"If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, it'll need something to keep you entertained, " he says.
By two-and-a-half minutes, the entire background is swathed in green and yellow, red and white--it's like a Venn diagram on steroids.
Slovakia offered little threat in the first half, but twice in a space of two second-half minutes they threatened to draw level.
None of the 80-90 people at the pool had noticed him struggling for the estimated two-and-a-half minutes it took him to drown.
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The visitors killed the contest with five tries in 20 first-half minutes.
However, Guus Hiddink's side may not now need their inspirational leader after two goals in six second-half minutes stunned the home supporters.
In about six and a half minutes the spacecraft had to go from more than 10, 000 miles an hour to a dead stop.
But it's a focus that I have, an incredibly strong focus that I have to have for just over three and a half minutes.
While technically free, it'll cost you about two-and-a-half minutes of your time a day to get about 517 megabytes of data in a month.
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And music was that sort of perfect place she could go to, this protected little world for at least three and a half minutes.
That is more than television networks tend to get, although Vevo reaches fewer people and runs many fewer ads (just 15 seconds every six-and-a-half minutes).
OK, he only left his bus for four and a half minutes, and he avoided any contact with a Conservative party contingent with placards nearby.
Hoult made his debut in Saturday's 3-1 home defeat to Bradford City, being beaten by three goals in the space of just 13 second-half minutes.
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Norwich City hit back with three goals in 18 second-half minutes to consign Swansea City to only their second home Premier League defeat of the season.
Abdulatif's quadruple strike boosted Bahrain's hopes of qualifying for the last eight, as the 24-year-old forward scored three times in 19 first-half minutes against India .
But before the action flagged in the quarter's final two and a half minutes, the Spurs pulled off a play that symbolized the exalted state they've achieved.
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