Example sentences of "it [is] [num] [adv] and " in BNC.

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1 It 's 1.30 a.m. and I should go to bed , long day tomorrow .
2 And so I 'm crying now ; it 's five o'clock and you 'll be arriving any minute .
3 It 's 10 a.m. and Charlie Neil , Central 's main weather presenter , arrives at the Weather Department .
4 It 's 5.15 a.m. and we have spent the last two hours asleep in a lay-by just outside Solihull and breakfast in Birmingham is the next item on the agenda . ’
5 So the sun shines bit of the courtyard when it 's eight o'clock and that when it 's nine o'clock and so forth .
6 It 's eight now and Mr Vigo has n't seen it for years .
7 It 's 7.50 a.m. and the inmates have been locked in their cells since 8.45 p.m. the previous evening .
8 It 's 8.30 am and I must find that discharge connector for the breathing gear — we 'll need it on the ship when loading begins .
9 So the sun shines bit of the courtyard when it 's eight o'clock and that when it 's nine o'clock and so forth .
10 And so you 're , er , have actually , you 're at or whatever , erm , it would be nice to think , and I 'm not exactly sure , my geography 's not that good at that particular part , but you , you sort of tend to look at it , and say , right if he 's in and out , and it 's ten o'clock and somebody says they can see him at eleven , you know , and there 's this tendency , to say , well erm , O K. Yes ?
11 It 's 9 a.m. and Tara senses something is going to happen , but she 's not really sure what .
12 It 's 1967 again and Jim Morrison is all over town .
13 It 's 7.15 a.m. and time for the first break of the day .
14 Now it is twelve o'clock and school is out and all those who do not stay behind for dinner are bounding down Trafalgar Street , the little ones paddling up to the Wellington-tops in the drifts left on either side by the snow plough .
15 By the time dinner has been eaten and evening prayers conducted it is eight o'clock and about a hundred people have gathered .
16 It is 11 am and we count 43 shrouded bodies — 12 of them babies , another eight young children .
17 It is 2.30 am and things are very lively at Number 17 where it gets noisier by the minute .
18 And now that it is 8.58 pm and I have done fifty-eight minutes of work , which I deem to be more than enough for one night I am signing off , because , I 'm lazy .
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