Example sentences of "[is] only [art] [det] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pigs the mariners left on the islands probably looked at lot like the ancestral wild boars , and certainly when pink pigs go wild , it 's only a few generations before they 're muscular , nimble and fierce again . |
| 2 | When domestic pigs go feral , it 's only a few generations before they start to look like the ancestral Eurasian wild boar . |
| 3 | Whereas really it 's only a few miles as the crow flies as it were . |
| 4 | But , remember , it 's only a few months since I won in Barcelona . ’ |
| 5 | It 's only a few days since I was sitting in the seats you all occupy , realising the difficult job that a Lord Mayor has to undertake in keeping members in order . |
| 6 | IT 'S only a few weeks before thousands of British schoolchildren sit their CSE and A-level exams . |
| 7 | The full extent of this system is yet to be established , but the gouffre Pierre-Saint-Martin is only a few miles as the Pyrenean crow flies from the Gorges de Kakouetta and forms part of the one vast hydrological network . |
| 8 | Given that it is only a few months since the Secretary of State appointed him under a two-year contract , will the Leader of the House arrange for the Secretary of State to make a statement to the House next week on the matter ? |