Example sentences of "it be only [art] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 — ’ |
| 2 | It 's only a few minutes by air , ’ he explained when she looked astonished . |
| 3 | Right in but it 's only a few minutes away . |
| 4 | The news and , oh yes it 's only a few minutes lovey . |
| 5 | It 's only a few hours now . ’ |
| 6 | And it 's only a few blocks away from your shop . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When domestic pigs go feral , it 's only a few generations before they start to look like the ancestral Eurasian wild boar . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But it 's only , it 's only a few people that do it |
| 12 | It 's only a few people at this moment in this country , that does believe in railway privatization , and that is the Department of Transport . |
| 13 | But , remember , it 's only a few months since I won in Barcelona . ’ |
| 14 | IT 'S only a few weeks before thousands of British schoolchildren sit their CSE and A-level exams . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's only a few weeks away now . |
| 16 | It 's only a few miles from here . |
| 17 | It 's only a few miles away . ’ |
| 18 | It 's only a few miles further along the road . ’ |
| 19 | Just a I think you should give us that , it 's only a few miles away ! |
| 20 | Give us that Stu , it 's only a few miles away . |
| 21 | Whereas really it 's only a few miles as the crow flies as it were . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's only a few yards away from the shop , so you could easily keep an eye on both . ’ |
| 23 | Every time the series is shown in Nicaragua , Zimbabwe , Iceland or wherever , I 'm sent something even if it is only a few shillings . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ It is only a few miles outside Tbilisi . |
| 27 | It is only a few years ago that we were being warned about the arrival of another ice age , for heavens ' sake ! |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | It was important to remember that it was only a few hours since Floy and Snodgrass had left Tara , the Shining Citadel , the Bright Palace , and that there was not very much that could have gone wrong for them in those few hours . |
| 30 | It was only a few lines , it was tucked away , all very low key , but the word murder was there to be seen and read . |