Example sentences of "it is [num] [adv] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | By the time dinner has been eaten and evening prayers conducted it is eight o'clock and about a hundred people have gathered . |
| 3 | It is 11 am and we count 43 shrouded bodies — 12 of them babies , another eight young children . |
| 4 | It is 2.30 am and things are very lively at Number 17 where it gets noisier by the minute . |
| 5 | 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 . |