Example sentences of "[is] [adv] a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , wait , but the thing is yeah , there 's only a few scenes where everyone 's in it , right , and where people , everyone is in it , then obviously I 'm gon na have help from you or from Andy are n't I ? |
| 2 | ‘ There 's only a few minutes left , they 'll never … wait wait , Steven has it , he 's come from nowhere and yes , he 's going for a shot ! … ’ |
| 3 | It 's only a few minutes by air , ’ he explained when she looked astonished . |
| 4 | Right in but it 's only a few minutes away . |
| 5 | The news and , oh yes it 's only a few minutes lovey . |
| 6 | It 's only a few hours now . ’ |
| 7 | And it 's only a few blocks away from your shop . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 — ’ |
| 9 | I mean there 's only a few stars , but they only need one or two heroes and the rest will come through . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When domestic pigs go feral , it 's only a few generations before they start to look like the ancestral Eurasian wild boar . |
| 12 | On the face of it , the Friend 3 seems the model least likely to benefit from flexibility — the thick stem interferes little with the working of the cams , both designs have the same strength rating and there 's only a few grams difference in weight between them . |
| 13 | every time I go there 's only a few packets left . |
| 14 | It 's only a few miles from here . |
| 15 | It 's only a few miles away . ’ |
| 16 | It 's only a few miles further along the road . ’ |
| 17 | Just a I think you should give us that , it 's only a few miles away ! |
| 18 | Give us that Stu , it 's only a few miles away . |
| 19 | Whereas really it 's only a few miles as the crow flies as it were . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's only a few yards away from the shop , so you could easily keep an eye on both . ’ |
| 21 | But , remember , it 's only a few months since I won in Barcelona . ’ |
| 22 | I mean there 's only a few kids there , they 're all good mates and it 's like private tuition . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But it 's only , it 's only a few people that do it |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And our Lord in the words that we 've read gives a very solemn answer to that question in the , in those words that we read a few moments ago and his immediate answer to the question you know are there few that be saved , was to say many , this was in the following verse , many shall not be able to be saved , now does that mean that only a few will be saved , that there 's only a few people who are gon na be in heaven that Jesus Christ came and died on the cross for about a handful of people , a small percentage does that what it , is that what it means , well lets look and see what the bible has to say , in Matthew chapter seven in verse thirteen and verse fourteen , this is what Jesus says enter by the narrow gate for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction and many of those who enter by it , for the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life , but few of those who find it any way in the same book , in , in Matthew in , in , in chapter twenty two and in , in , in verse fourteen , listen again to what it says there Jesus is speaking he says for many a called , but few are chosen |
| 28 | IT 'S only a few weeks before thousands of British schoolchildren sit their CSE and A-level exams . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's only a few weeks away now . |
| 30 | At present it 's merely a few planks covering a narrow part of a stream further along this track . ’ |