Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean it wo n't mean me redoing it or anything , it 's just a few things that I wanted |
| 2 | When it 's just a few minutes from the face , the thick cloud filling the valley gently wells up to lock in the cold . |
| 3 | Although the Diplomat is along a quiet side-street , it 's just a few minutes stroll from Munich 's pedestrian shopping areas . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's just a few blocks further … ’ |
| 5 | At present it 's merely a few planks covering a narrow part of a stream further along this track . ’ |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | ‘ 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 — ’ |
| 8 | It 's only a few minutes by air , ’ he explained when she looked astonished . |
| 9 | Right in but it 's only a few minutes away . |
| 10 | The news and , oh yes it 's only a few minutes lovey . |
| 11 | It 's only a few hours now . ’ |
| 12 | And it 's only a few blocks away from your shop . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When domestic pigs go feral , it 's only a few generations before they start to look like the ancestral Eurasian wild boar . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But , remember , it 's only a few months since I won in Barcelona . ’ |
| 18 | IT 'S only a few weeks before thousands of British schoolchildren sit their CSE and A-level exams . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's only a few weeks away now . |
| 20 | It 's only a few miles from here . |
| 21 | It 's only a few miles away . ’ |
| 22 | It 's only a few miles further along the road . ’ |
| 23 | Just a I think you should give us that , it 's only a few miles away ! |
| 24 | Give us that Stu , it 's only a few miles away . |
| 25 | Whereas really it 's only a few miles as the crow flies as it were . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's only a few yards away from the shop , so you could easily keep an eye on both . ’ |
| 27 | It is just a few years since the club — whose anthem was : ‘ We are Millwall . |
| 28 | Every time the series is shown in Nicaragua , Zimbabwe , Iceland or wherever , I 'm sent something even if it is only a few shillings . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |