Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of the New Year — or perhaps in a couple of months time at the beginning of the new financial year — there is often a need to set up a spreadsheet that shows a time series . |
| 2 | Bob is advising Clinton how to cope when he leaves Stoke Mandeville in a couple of months time and has to fend for himself in his own home : |
| 3 | An an er , and er then they must have got a massive erm in a couple of months time , you know , they 're not gon na be able to control him , he might be , well if he hits me , I 'll just hit him back . |
| 4 | John is fourteen next term and would normally leave school in a couple of years time . |
| 5 | It will do now in a couple of years time . |
| 6 | Micros are astonishingly powerful , and it may well be that in a couple of years time they will provide the most attractive solution — but they do not provide it yet . |
| 7 | Couple of years time |
| 8 | I mean what 's he gon na be like in a couple of years time ? |
| 9 | there was something going on , whether or not there was , I do n't know I said she could n't in a couple of years time , she said I du n no , she says she 's only twenty six |
| 10 | What if there 's like a book published in a , in about a couple of years time about the children 's language |
| 11 | In a couple of years time the other schools have gone past you and you suddenly find these services that you need to buy in are become very expensive and become unattainable because you 've been spending your money in other directions . |
| 12 | It does not mean — what it all too often has become — an aid to impulse buying , ‘ immediate ’ gardening , and the idea that ‘ if we lift them and pot them up instead of leaving them in the ground , we can sell them in a couple of weeks time as ‘ container grown ’ ’ . |
| 13 | With the support of IBM and HP now apparently secure — despite their other endeavours , see below — an announcement is expected at the Uniforum show in a couple of weeks time . |
| 14 | In view of the limited time available before the scheduled date for Advance Data Capture for Council Tax purposes I will ask my secretary to set up a meeting to discuss this document and Council Tax structures and staffing levels in a couple of weeks time . |
| 15 | When the Dragons first eleven set off for the sun in a couple of weeks time they 'll be taking with them a pretty impressive record , just 2 defeats in the last seven seasons . |
| 16 | Les was happy to show how it should be done … as for the students , they 've a lot of practicing ahead before they put on a circus show for a local school in a couple of weeks time . |
| 17 | God knows what 's it going to be like in a couple of weeks time . |
| 18 | We will be seeing her , seeing , we 're going out are n't we , in a couple of weeks time ? |
| 19 | that 's something , but this thing reaches publicity stage , which it could in a couple of weeks time , appear in a paper , you 'd have all sorts of weirdos |
| 20 | I know how keen many of our listeners are on craft shows and there 's a big 'un at Nottingham University at the Jessie Boot Conference Centre , Nottingham University on Friday and Saturday , November the twenty six and twenty seventh so this is in a couple of weeks time and giving you n advance notice . |
| 21 | It would n't be , I would n't say oh no you ca n't have it , but I 'd say well you 'll receive it in a couple of days time and if they said oh well that 's not good enough , then fair enough , you , you know . |
| 22 | The problem is that so little of police time is devoted to it . |
| 23 | It is widely accepted that vast amounts of police time are wasted by calling constables unnecessarily as court witnesses but the problem has so far proved intractable . |
| 24 | The consultant 's have put forward proposals which they believe could halve the amount of police time spent on these administrative tasks and which could put the equivalent of up to two thousand three hundred police officers back on the streets . |
| 25 | ‘ More bobbies on the beat gives rise to greater confidence but they are not necessarily an effective use of police time , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Erm moving on and talking about the subject of the Gascoigne Wood pits or the er proposed tip at the Gascoigne Wood pits in just a couple of moments time . |
| 27 | Athelstan would correct him and make Cranston repeat the list of facts time and again until the coroner , not famous for his patience , shouted : ‘ Hell 's teeth ! |
| 28 | Our friends will still be thinking of Christmas as chronos time — just another festival . |
| 29 | So dates like 1066 or Aunt Ethel 's birthday all belong to chronos time . |
| 30 | Indeed it has been suggested that strict compliance with the provisions would impose an unwarranted burden on police time . |