Example sentences of "[unc] time it " in BNC.
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1 | Furnished as it was in Cook 's time it 's now a museum containing many artefacts connected with Cook and his voyages . |
2 | Since Pérignon 's time it has become evident that although the climate of Champagne barely manages to colour black grapes one particular variety , the Pinot Meunier , is the region 's most prolific producer and the vine least prone to the severe frosts experienced in the Marne valley . |
3 | Lowthorpe is mentioned four times in the Domesday Book , where it is spelt Logetorp , and in King Edward the Confessor 's time it was valued at the princely sum of eight shillings . |
4 | Also , innovative ideas do tend to work their way down to the more affordable guitars and equipment , so it might not be for you now , but maybe in a year 's time it will be . |
5 | Today we use the word ‘ meditation ’ quite differently : in Hilton 's time it meant study rather than a purely contemplative exercise . |
6 | In a week 's time it would be the longest day of the year when , in these latitudes , a gunner could accurately sight a twelve-pounder at half-past nine of an evening . |
7 | In Keynes 's time it was mainly wealthy or high-income earning individuals who operated speculative balances , but in the modern economy this role has been assumed more by institutions which manage contractual savings held in pension funds , life assurance contracts , and the like . |
8 | In Newton 's time it was possible for an educated person to have a grasp of the whole of human knowledge , at least in outline . |
9 | ‘ Since old Josh 's time it 's been used as a holiday retreat by various Proberts down the years , ’ he added , ‘ with some of the land let out for summer grazing to mainland farmers . ’ |
10 | And I like to think in fifty or a hundred years ' time it will not be possible for any orchestra to play sloppily and claim that it is not possible to do better . |
11 | Hal B. Wallis , who hired me , was a very shrewd man who recognized that the studio system was over and in five years ' time it would no longer be there . ’ |
12 | Everyone I met kept apologising for the shabby state of the buildings and I had the feeling that if I went back in ten years ' time it would look like the set for some grand-scale horror film , all broken banging shutters and cobwebbed windows . |
13 | In three years ' time it is likely that everything in the country , including rugby ticket prices , will have escalated by 45 per cent . |
14 | In two weeks ' time it would be one year since he had first come to Iraq . |
15 | IBM has invested so much in the development of , and so much more in the marketing of , OS/2 2.0 that it has to plough on with it even if in 18 months ' time it becomes clear that it is becoming at best a respectable also-ran in the desktop stakes . |
16 | but if you if you if that 's all you do then in eve even a week 's time but definitely in a few months ' time it 's just gone . |
17 | Then in a few weeks ' time it will have been outstripped by the very events which it is shaping . |
18 | In two years ' time it 's planned it 'll be completely car-free . |