He had not given it much thought in the past few minutes.

But that was what he'd been doing for the past several minutes.

He's been standing under it for the past ten minutes.

She had been saying the same thing and many other things for the past five minutes.

He has not allowed a goal in the past 345 minutes.

But for the past ten minutes he'd been watching her standing at the side of the road, waiting.

So is everything else we have been saying for the past few minutes.

And he considered his actions of the past few minutes.

His men had been in place for the past fifteen minutes.

"There is a way," said King, who had been thinking very hard for the past several minutes.