Example sentences of "'s only a few [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 . |