The game kicked off several minutes ago.

比赛几分钟前开始了。

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Several minutes ago, Mom went out to the market.

几分钟前，妈妈外出去市场。

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For several minutes, at the exact time in the afternoon the quake struck in Sichuan Province one week ago, cars stopped and blared their horns.

几分钟前，在一个星期前四川地震那个下午的准确时间，车辆停止行驶，鸣号。

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You'll remember that I mentioned several minutes ago that Milton appears -- literary historians, I think, have rightly seen the Milton who had written Lycidas as a different figure than the poet before having written Lycidas.

你们还记得我刚刚说过,精通文学的历史学家们，恰恰把写出了的弥尔顿,看作和之前的弥尔顿完全不同的一个人。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Marisa Benson met with a colleague a few years ago who gazed intently at her for several minutes while they worked on a problem.

WSJ: The Decline of Eye Contact