Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [num] [noun] [unc] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm going to sacrifice maybe holidays this year , and maybe have a couple of long weekend breaks , as long as I earn enough to keep my head above water and to pay my way in life for the next twelve months , keep my family fed and watered I 'm Okay , then I 'm going to take stock in twelve months ' time . |
| 2 | In theory , you could see me in the Sunshine Home for Impoverished Journalists in 40 years ' time , tripping the nurses over with my Zimmer frame in the hope that they 'll let me father their child . |
| 3 | According to Mark Doran , Unix International 's technical project manager , Application Linking wo n't be a full object-oriented specification and is intended only as a stop-gap definition until the Object Group delivers object linking and embedding guidelines in two years ' time . |
| 4 | He saw no reason to add that from now on , her body would break down : she would gradually become slower in her movements , she would tire more easily and lack stamina , and she would probably have another stroke in seven years ' time — at the latest . |
| 5 | There was great jubilation in the family when he returned home to tell them that he was to start in the Despatch Department in two weeks ' time , in the huge new office in Edge Lane where Eileen worked . |
| 6 | That 's a look we 'll see emerging from the dull , old chrysalis that was Renault design in the '70s and '80s , when it takes the wraps off its first really new-age car in two years ' time . |
| 7 | The second complaint made by the local authority is that the justices specifically said by paragraph ( 1 ) of their contact order that there should be no contact between T. and her father until after the local authority review in six months ' time . |
| 8 | any sub-lease would be outside the Landlord and Tenant Act and would include a rent review in one year 's time as per their own lease ; |
| 9 | But despite the ‘ scariest moment ’ of his life , James said he would be back in action in four weeks ' time at the Dundrod 150 . |
| 10 | Now I 've achieved the length , I want to have a perm for my wedding in two month 's time , only to find that due to the Henna , my hair wo n't take a perm . |
| 11 | The Department of Energy estimates that 10 per cent of our electricity could come from hot dry rock in 125 years ' time . |
| 12 | As Tone Vine-Lott , managing director of Barclays Stockbrokers and new chairman of the Scottish Stock Exchange ( and , as an IT man , nothing like the stockbroker stereotype ) , points out in Money Talks , the stockbroking game will still have changed out of all recognition in ten years ' time . |
| 13 | She 'd be dreadful when they came to Der Zarewitsch in three weeks ' time ; like playing Arsena again . |
| 14 | Insurance bosses will press ahead with banning all claims for bomb damage of more than £100,000 from four weeks ' time . |
| 15 | Exporter 's $10m receipt in three months ' time under a forward contract will be worth DM40.4m . |
| 16 | Suppose the objective is to receive sterling in one year 's time . |
| 17 | In the end , to please her , I promised to get a job in six months ' time . |
| 18 | We are interested in tools for the classroom in five years ' time , rather than those which can be run now . |
| 19 | So here 's to both teams and I hope the match in two year 's time is just as good as this was . |
| 20 | But councillors are urging officials to get on with spending because the authority could go out of business in two years ' time if local government is reorganised . |
| 21 | NEW YORK ( Reuter ) — El Salvador 's President , Alfredo Cristiani , announced in a speech to the UN that he would make a proposal for a ceasefire in his country 's 10-year-old civil war at a meeting with FMLN rebels in two weeks ' time . |
| 22 | So it was decided that Oliver would help Sikes with the robbery in two days ' time . |
| 23 | What was the use of tallies that might , perhaps , be valid in theory , and even capable of being turned into cash in six months ' time , or a year , but were so much paper now , and no use to disgruntled archers and men-at-arms whose need was for coin that could be spent at once ? |
| 24 | It would be surprising if benchmarking attracts as much media attention in five years ' time as it does now . |
| 25 | A compromise with far tighter controls over the CITES-monitored quota system is likely to be agreed before the end of the conference in two weeks ' time . |
| 26 | The Olympic dual silver medal-winning three-day event rider and the Edinburgh Woollen Mill 's pensioned-off steeplechaser require to add one more success to their comprehensive pillar-to-post victory at Bogside , Irvine , last Saturday , to become eligible for a tilt at the Foxhunters Hunter Chase at jump racing 's Cheltenham National Hunt Festival in 20 days ' time . |
| 27 | I did n't think they could be like REM in seven album 's time , but there was a lot depth in there and I knew it would n't dry up after one or two albums , ’ he recalls . |
| 28 | I mean , we do n't stand still at this because what will seem a very good service this year will look like a lousy service in five years ' time so let's not pretend the fact that we have n't achieved everything we 've achieved this year in some previous years means that we have n't made any improvements because I think one of the key areas where in fact er improvements have been made in previous years , and to a certain extent , one could say reading this I was worried by an apparent admission of very much reference or very much expenditure on them in the provision of day centres , because I think that a key element in care in the community and the fact that today so successfully this year has been the fact that a major number of th and I do n't think there 's any disagreement over this , a number of day centres , very efficient and very effective day centres , were developed , funded , provided mainly in the conurbation areas and I think Mr is right to highlight the fact that , as so often happens in these instances , it 's people who live in conurbations who get the best deal because it 's , it 's more economical , it 's easier to provide a centre for a large number of people than it is for a small number of people . |
| 29 | A lady George thought sombrely , with a fine appreciation of the political timescale come the inevitable memorial service in three weeks ' time people would already be asking ‘ Barling ? |
| 30 | Some others , though , among them the winner in Paris in two Sundays ' time , will be mysteriously gathering rather than losing strength . |