Example sentences of "a bit too " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That might be a bit too much . ’ |
| 2 | Though the trend in tennis today is towards the high-tech , powerful , graphite rackets , often with larger heads , many women find them a little heavy and sometimes even a bit too large . |
| 3 | The danger for the Government is that it may all come just a bit too late to expunge the memories of our current travails and of too long a period of neglect for the supply-side of the economy to respond . |
| 4 | One of them came in , looked at the rubber gear and said , cor , I do n't know about this any more , this is all a bit too weird for me . |
| 5 | I think the one you show may have risen a bit too much … |
| 6 | ‘ I was a bit too nosy that time and I have n't seen the stall here since . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've got a slight frame so French clothes tend to hang a bit too loosely on me . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The blue is a bit too close to the sky blue of the West Ham football kit , and I 'm not a fan ! ’ |
| 9 | It 's all been a bit too easy on the ear and eye . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm afraid we 've gone a bit too soft , ’ she says with almost Blimpish fervour . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm afraid we 've gone a bit too soft , ’ she says with almost Blimpish fervour . |
| 12 | CS : ‘ And I suppose you think there 's been a bit too much soul . |
| 13 | I just assumed they were trying to cut back as they had been a bit too lavish . |
| 14 | The November campaign was , if anything , a bit too earnest , with education the main issue . |
| 15 | Although the clutch is Japanese-smooth the gear change , though slick , is a bit too clonky . |
| 16 | Already I have the feeling that I 'm a bit too thin — that Anna , whose house I am at , will say that I was never fat in the first place : ‘ Oh , you 're all right , skinny ribs ’ ; that mixture of dismissal and envy she uses , excluding me from the problems of other girls , from real problems like her fat thighs , or her backside that could do with ‘ half an hour on a bacon slicer ’ , as she puts it . |
| 17 | Good advice , though a bit too late . |
| 18 | Trainer Toby Balding blamed Richard Guest for making too much use of Romany King and this hugely promising eight-year-old did probably start racing a bit too far from home for comfort . |
| 19 | Some subjects are painful , sensational , controversial or just a bit too exciting . |
| 20 | In the 80 inch and 86 inch Land Rover , the engine bay is a bit too small to accommodate engines other than the 1600 and 2000 F-head . |
| 21 | She had told Dr. Saxby , and he 'd said he 'd mention it to Dr. Briant ; it could be she was having a bit too high a dose of the red capsules . |
| 22 | And knowing he 'd gone a bit too far , and glad enough , now his fright and anger were fading , to have faced down Lachlan 's temper and Farquhar 's knife unharmed , Duncan Rua was satisfied to grin back , and turn aside to work the ship . |
| 23 | ‘ Sometimes we used to think that he was a bit too shy and quiet . |
| 24 | He was easy to wind up and I think we used to do that a bit too much . |
| 25 | ‘ If there is a fault at the moment , it is that they are a bit too élite and cliquey . |
| 26 | ‘ That 's a bit too sporting , I should say . ’ |
| 27 | They had also brought Father Paddy in from his parish , and he had brought Father Donnelly who had invited Bishop Monaghan , but he had declined , saying he was a bit too geriatric these days for modern vaudeville and ragtime singing . |
| 28 | It will make it look a bit too urban , ’ said Hazel Wilson . |
| 29 | There is a wealth of revealing evidence on the attitudes that affect reading : ‘ His daddy always takes him to bed , and he says ‘ Can I have a story ? ’ said an engineer 's wife , ‘ but he 's been told now that he 's getting a bit too old for stories ’ ’ [ ‘ He ’ is four ] ( Newson and Newson , 1968 , p.274 ) ; ‘ Then I read her a story , ’ said an actor 's wife , ‘ and Rupert listens , and then I show Rupert his little book ’ ’ [ Rupert being sixteen months old ] ( ibid . |
| 30 | The boys go to school every day — there 's a tiny place in Clyst St George — but they 're at large all the afternoon , and they 're getting a bit too obstreperous to have about the place . |