Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] only [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 She has worked her way slowly up the rankings until now she is only a few places behind Durie in the high sixties .
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 minutes by air , ’ he explained when she looked astonished .
4 Right in but it 's only a few minutes away .
5 The news and , oh yes it 's only a few minutes lovey .
6 It 's only a few hours now . ’
7 And it 's only a few blocks away from your shop .
8 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 .
9 When domestic pigs go feral , it 's only a few generations before they start to look like the ancestral Eurasian wild boar .
10 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 .
11 Erm , has the honourable gentleman noted that er on the ninth of February , it 's only a few days ago , the European parliament itself erm through its rapporteur Mr Fernand Herman er the Christian Democrats , but also of course with er socialists from the er European parliament , endorsed a constitution er which contains even worse things than the European peoples party 's manifesto .
12 But , remember , it 's only a few months since I won in Barcelona . ’
13 IT 'S only a few weeks before thousands of British schoolchildren sit their CSE and A-level exams .
14 It 's only a few weeks away now .
15 It 's only a few miles from here .
16 It 's only a few miles away . ’
17 It 's only a few miles further along the road . ’
18 Just a I think you should give us that , it 's only a few miles away !
19 Give us that Stu , it 's only a few miles away .
20 Whereas really it 's only a few miles as the crow flies as it were .
21 It 's only a few yards away from the shop , so you could easily keep an eye on both . ’
22 Every time the series is shown in Nicaragua , Zimbabwe , Iceland or wherever , I 'm sent something even if it is only a few shillings .
23 From our site in Old College it is only a few minutes walk to Parliament House , where the highest criminal and civil courts in Scotland sit , and to the local Sheriff and district court .
24 Oxford itself , the ‘ city of dreaming spires ’ as John Betjeman eulogised it is only a few miles away with all its many and varied attractions .
25 It is only a few miles outside Tbilisi .
26 It is only a few years ago that we were being warned about the arrival of another ice age , for heavens ' sake !
27 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 ?
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