Example sentences of "it [be] only [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had a slight operation and er I did n't know about it until today so erm er Paul 's going to offer him our good wishes and we 're going to be , I 'm told he 's home again and it 's , it 's only quite a minor operation and he 's quite well and that er hopefully will be back again next week . |
| 2 | It 's only really a four and a half hour roundabout is n't it ? |
| 3 | It 's only about a quarter of an acre , but it 's quite idyllic , and within reasonable reach of home . |
| 4 | For Pete 's sake — it 's only about an hour 's drive . ’ |
| 5 | She says it 's only once a year . |
| 6 | It 's only now a bit later on . ’ |
| 7 | They 'd piled him in with the dead , and it was only later a naval ensign noticed him twitching . |
| 8 | It seemed incredible that it was only just a week since she 'd arrived , Luce thought . |
| 9 | They got the impression that he was well into it but , in fact , it was only about a week before that he 'd started to get interested . |
| 10 | It was only about a thousand words long but of a high quality . |
| 11 | I thought it was only once a month . |
| 12 | It was only recently a town that offered waged work for women , though much of that has disappeared in the past few years , and it was never a town that invited black workers . |
| 13 | It was only incidentally a timepiece. primarily it was a mechanical representation of the universe , a kind of planetarium . |