Time and money

[Crack1]

Il s'agit de temps.
It is a question/matter of time.

Il s'agit de l'argent.
It is a question/matter of money.

I hope my French sentences are fine.

[Frank]

It is a question/matter of time.

C'est une question/histoire/affaire de temps.

It is a question/matter of money.

C'est une question/histoire/affaire d'argent.

[Crack1]

Thanks Frank
When do you use the verb 's'agir'?
I think it means a mater of.

[Frank]

"s'agir" has tons of different meanings.

"a matter of" is one of them, but I highly recommend you check a dictionary in order to discover some of the other meanings of this important verb.

[Neil Coffey]

As Frank says, s'agir (de) has quite varied usage. Quite often, it's really just a fancy way of saying "is". Have a look at some of the ways it's been translated in practice, e.g.:

http://www.translationexamples.com/ex/fr-en/agit

you'll see examples such as:

À mon sens, il s' agit d' une erreur
This is a misconception in my view.

Il s' agit des domaines où...
These are areas where...

Il s' agit d' apporter le travail là où le chômage est le plus élevé
It is important to take the work where unemployment is at its highest

Other possibilities might include "What is at stake is...", "What we are talking about is...", "It comes down to...".

Have a look too at some of the ways in which the expression s'agissant de... has been translated:

http://www.translationexamples.com/ex/fr-en/agissant

[Crack1]

Neil

I looked at those translated examples.
They are very advanced French.
My French is beneath contempt!

[Neil Coffey]

Well, the actual French is quite advanced in a sense because these are "real" translations from parliament sessions.

But ignoring the rest of the French, my point was really just to show that in actual practice, translators have opted for translating s'agir simply as "be" ("this is...", "these are...", "it is..." etc) in a large number of cases.