Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | O K , erm , premiums are stopped for er , if you ca n't afford to carry on paying them , the premiums are stopped , and your fund is continued up until the p , the point where the charges exhaust the funds , providing it 's over a thousand pounds . |
| 2 | Now of course , ‘ Racehorses of 1990 ’ is the bible of the racing man , it 's over a thousand pages in total , there are pen portraits of all the eight thousand horses that ran on the flat in England in 1990 , and lot 's more as well . |
| 3 | They own nothing , I mean , it 's over a hundred years old , so it 's just , it 's like built on the soil |
| 4 | ‘ Relax , min skat , it 's nearly a thousand years since our Danish King Canute possessed your English throne . |
| 5 | Admittedly he is rather obscure and it 's nearly a nundred years since he died . |
| 6 | It 's just a million pounds and more . |
| 7 | I mean it wo n't mean me redoing it or anything , it 's just a few things that I wanted |
| 8 | When it 's just a few minutes from the face , the thick cloud filling the valley gently wells up to lock in the cold . |
| 9 | Although the Diplomat is along a quiet side-street , it 's just a few minutes stroll from Munich 's pedestrian shopping areas . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's just a few blocks further … ’ |
| 11 | BIZARRE INC 's debut LP is excellent , but so it should be , since it 's effectively a greatest hits . |
| 12 | Next year , year 's topic will be nuclear , nuclear physics , it 's fucking massive , it 's about a hundred topics |
| 13 | It 's about a hundred miles from Vitez to Split but they have to cross and recross the front lines in a war that 's unpredictable . |
| 14 | It 's about a hundred years old . |
| 15 | no , no , no , that 's what I ca n't understand , no I think it 's about a hundred years old you see , probably |
| 16 | We have a budget — I think it 's about a million pounds in total on this — it 's a hundred thousand , so it 's one in ten over any one year less that we 'll be able to care for in this way . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's about a thousand pounds . ’ |
| 18 | At present it 's merely a few planks covering a narrow part of a stream further along this track . ’ |
| 19 | Mm , mind you I never bother , I mean if you look in supermarket , erm , you know it has er best before , and it you know it 's always a few months |
| 20 | There is a vast choice of discos , bars and restaurants practically on your doorstep ; it 's only a 100 metres walk to the main avenue of the bustling resort and a variety of discos and bars surround the hotel . |
| 21 | Er , with reference section , perhaps describes all parts of the system , and the index is very useful , even though it 's only a dozen pages long , your manual . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 — ’ |
| 23 | It 's only a few minutes by air , ’ he explained when she looked astonished . |
| 24 | Right in but it 's only a few minutes away . |
| 25 | The news and , oh yes it 's only a few minutes lovey . |
| 26 | It 's only a few hours now . ’ |
| 27 | And it 's only a few blocks away from your shop . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | When domestic pigs go feral , it 's only a few generations before they start to look like the ancestral Eurasian wild boar . |
| 30 | 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 . |