This is language dependent. In English: It's only five minutes to the bus stop. In German: Es sind nur fünf Minuten zur Bushaltestelle. (It are only five minu

This is language dependent. In English: It's only five minutes to the bus stop. In German: Es sind nur fünf Minuten zur Bushaltestelle. (It are only five minutes to the bus stop.) I think it's a question of whether the verb is supposed to agree with the subject or the complement.