Example sentences of "'re [adv] talking [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yeah I mean we 're only talking about a couple of initially er large erm thirty second spots if you like . |
| 2 | A mosquito probably registers about ten or twenty decibels , and this could be very annoying if you were trying to sleep and one was buzzing around you , but in our trade we 're normally talking about a level of perhaps sixty or seventy decibels which is tolerable and the sort of noise perhaps we 're making at the moment . |
| 3 | We 're not talking of rounding , we 're just talking of a function that 's made up . |
| 4 | I think er they 're still talking at the moment . |
| 5 | No they 're not the realities , because what we 're saying is that we have to modernize the policies of the Labour Party , but the policies are absolutely based in our traditional concerns , I mean , let me give you an example , when Beveridge was talking about unemployment , and the life long need for people to work , he was talking about a male workforce , where it was a man supported by a non-working wife , now we still have at the absolute heart of our concerns in the Labour Party peoples need to work , but we 're now talking about a situation , where women are sharing with their husbands the role of bed breadwinner , and in many families the woman is the sole breadwinner , and therefore our policies about employment and the economy recognize that the world has changed , our principles are the same , but the world to which we 're applying it is very different , and , again , on that you see there would be no distinction between the so-called traditionalists and the so-called modernizers . |
| 6 | They were hugely amusing on the television , it was a wonderful series , but we 're actually talking about the education of children here , not high farce on the telly . |