Example sentences of "[is] [adv] a [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's only a few minutes by air , ’ he explained when she looked astonished . |
| 2 | ‘ Listen , we could go to the Baltic — ’ naming a horribly expensive café and one far beyond his means — ‘ it 's only a few stops on the bus — ’ |
| 3 | It 's only a few miles from here . |
| 4 | It 's only a few people at this moment in this country , that does believe in railway privatization , and that is the Department of Transport . |
| 5 | The main problem in Preston today is the traffic , especially along the Main Street , and the church 's foundations must be suffering , as the tower is only a few feet from a sharp bend in the street . |
| 6 | Digital Equipment Corp is only a few strides behind IBM Corp in the concept of clustering workstations to create highly parallel configurations . |
| 7 | It 's set in its own park with beautiful rolling gardens leading down to the road which separates the hotel from its own private beach , yet is only a few minutes from the centre . |
| 8 | In this particular case , the porosity is present in basin plain sediments ( Clark and Tallbacka 1980 ) and therefore the potential pay is only a few metres in thickness . |
| 9 | The bipolar outflow model does however raise the question of how molecules can survive in a strong shock in a medium with the extremely high velocity of 1,000km s -1 ( for comparison , the sound velocity in interstellar space is only a few kilometres per second ) . |
| 10 | My first efforts to find Roztoky , which is only a few miles outside Prague , were a horror story of wrong turnings , lengthy detours and rush-hour traffic . |
| 11 | ‘ It is only a few miles outside Tbilisi . |
| 12 | Put a scrap of newspaper on the block or box and lower the strip until the drop is only a few millimetres above the paper . |
| 13 | The opening to the organ is only a few millimetres in diameter , and so it acts rather like a pin-hole camera , but one that focuses infra-red heat radiation instead of light . |
| 14 | She has worked her way slowly up the rankings until now she is only a few places behind Durie in the high sixties . |
| 15 | This very friendly gasthaus is ideally situated next to the Hahnenkamm cable car , and is just a few minutes from the town centre . |
| 16 | The hotel is just a few minutes from the pleasant sandy beach and close to the bustling central market . |
| 17 | This is just a few lines to a friend or relative without any complaints in it . |
| 18 | This is just a few months before the overthrow of Margaret Thatcher . |
| 19 | That is just a few words in your mind you can see a person walking along . |
| 20 | When it 's just a few minutes from the face , the thick cloud filling the valley gently wells up to lock in the cold . |
| 21 | Well at least it 's just a half day at school today . |
| 22 | The cuckoo is always a few steps in the lead , because of its extraordinary survival factors . |
| 23 | John 's already stolen my thunder on the straw poll erm that I was going to do but suffice to say that we normally do that at these types of seminars and there 's always a few people in the room who put their hands up and say they 've got more than ten data sources in their organization . |
| 24 | Although he is now a few months past the usual retirement age of 65 , Mr Sulzberger has not disclosed when he will go . |
| 25 | Yeah , erm , called the Cycle Book , I 've got a copy erm , and so I got one from him , and there 's quite a few adverts in there bikes . |
| 26 | There 's quite a few restaurants with people in them having their tea . |