Example sentences of "it [is] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it 's just a few minutes from the face , the thick cloud filling the valley gently wells up to lock in the cold . |
| 2 | Although the Diplomat is along a quiet side-street , it 's just a few minutes stroll from Munich 's pedestrian shopping areas . |
| 3 | I think the shops are alright round here but you know it 's just a few of the shops are a bit , you know , funny . |
| 4 | I mean it wo n't mean me redoing it or anything , it 's just a few things that I wanted |
| 5 | ‘ It 's just a few blocks further … ’ |
| 6 | She says when she was a child we thought it 's just a few joint pains . |
| 7 | At present it 's merely a few planks covering a narrow part of a stream further along this track . ’ |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | It 's quite a few . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 — ’ |
| 11 | IT 'S only a few weeks before thousands of British schoolchildren sit their CSE and A-level exams . |
| 12 | It 's only a few miles from here . |
| 13 | But , remember , it 's only a few months since I won in Barcelona . ’ |
| 14 | But it 's only , it 's only a few people that do it |
| 15 | ‘ It 's only a few million people , Doctor . ’ |
| 16 | It 's only a few miles away . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's only a few of them who do n't believe , ’ explained Beuno . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When domestic pigs go feral , it 's only a few generations before they start to look like the ancestral Eurasian wild boar . |
| 20 | Erm the third one is we 've got a small amount of money out of , think again it 's out of TEED and , but it 's N Y T E C have got hold of it and it 's to do with further development of the Careers Service Tech Partnership , but it 's only a few thousand , it 's a very small n amount compared , I mean the bid that we 've put in for this Standards and Indicators is more like sort of thirty thousand . |
| 21 | It 's only a few hours now . ’ |
| 22 | And it 's only a few blocks away from your shop . |
| 23 | It 's only a few minutes by air , ’ he explained when she looked astonished . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's only a few weeks away now . |
| 25 | It 's only a few miles further along the road . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's only a few yards away from the shop , so you could easily keep an eye on both . ’ |
| 30 | Right in but it 's only a few minutes away . |