Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] a matter [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individuals in many settings are now as a matter of routine involved in interactions with complex computer systems . |
| 2 | But , if so , it will be just as a matter of fact . |
| 3 | A grateful stock market was apparently convinced that the war would be over in a matter of hours , and so the Dow Jones roared to a 114-point gain . |
| 4 | Everyone thought the war would be over in a matter of months . |
| 5 | It will all be over in a matter of hours ; an unimaginably horrible episode , but hardly a war . |
| 6 | I am convinced it will be over in a matter of months . |
| 7 | When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 , Mussolini thought the war would be over in a matter of weeks , and so that he could claim a share of the spoils for Italy he offered to send troops to the Russian front . |
| 8 | He would be back in a matter of days and there was much to do . |
| 9 | A clergyman who was in Manchester Cathedral when the second device went off said : ‘ I had only been there for a matter of seconds when I heard an almighty crump . |
| 10 | Sown in early July , it is up in a matter of days . |
| 11 | From 936/1530 to well beyond the limits of the present study the office was held continuously by Ottoman scholars , a survey of whose careers suggests that if the office was not a mevleviyet from 936/1530 it was so from a matter of a very few years thereafter . |
| 12 | The forced sale was over in a matter of hours . |
| 13 | It was over in a matter of seconds . |