Example sentences of "it 's only [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , he 's supposed to have had an insurance policies but General Accident said it 's only for a year and he took it out in seventy seven to nineteen seventy eight . |
| 2 | but , it 's only for a day , so you do n't really know |
| 3 | You must get away , even if it 's only for a couple of days . |
| 4 | ‘ Even if it 's only for a couple of hours , I have to go to bed . ’ |
| 5 | So I said if it 's only for a mile it 's going to be well less than a minute at eighty , presuming you were doing more than thereabouts and er that was it . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's only for a time , ’ Fred said on the last night of the tour . |
| 7 | It 's only for a week or so . ’ |
| 8 | Never has an apostrophe , it 's only on a noun that you 're going to do it , so , you could pick up sort of , just little , clues there as to , how to remember what you 're doing . |
| 9 | about , no , no it 's only about a fortnight ago , I was on site doing a job and I come out and as far as you know what you call courtesy dial in a card , so that you do n't cut anybody off , you can dial it and everybody says oh what 's going off , you know , you can courtesy dial it , when we 've finished it shuts that channel down |
| 10 | He disapproves of the whole superstar DJ scene , however : ‘ At the end of the day it 's only about a bit of plastic — people should n't wet their knickers about it . |
| 11 | It 's only about a pound eighty a week or something for him . |
| 12 | And that 'll be , I 've got about a ream of , well it 's only about a ream paper . |
| 13 | In a sense and a I 'm not sure if it 's only in a sense , that , that when we talk now of say are n't we trying to approach the same ? |
| 14 | … but it 's only by a whisker |
| 15 | Cos I mean it 's only like a siren , it 's only going ooh ooh ooh in n it ? |
| 16 | It 's only like a plaster of paris stuff is n't it ? |