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Unos minutos
Durante unos minutos no sabía si decir...
For a few minutes I didn't know whether to say... May I say "for some minutes" instead? Thanks |
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After a few minutes, I didn't know what to say.
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My book says "for a few minutes", but I wrote "for some minutes".
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I can't agree with @poli about "after..." but then maybe this is another dialect issue. |
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por unos pocos minutos for some minutes por algunos minutos durante unos/algunos minutos/ ...durando algunos minutos... during some minutes |
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"For/during some minutes" is understood, but clumsy. "For some time" is good
English, but suggests a longer time frame than this context requires. "For a few minutes" and "After a few minutes" are both correct, but have different shades of meaning. Like "For a short time I didn't know whether to say...and after a few minutes had gone by I did know what to say (or still didn't).
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"For some minutes" me parece connotar más tiempo que "For a few minutes".
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I would say......
For a few minutes instead of for some minutes. For some minutes doesn't quite sound "natural" to me. My
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For some minutes, I will be there with you
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I say a few minutes.
makes more sense |
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