Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] ['s] time be " in BNC.

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1 With a U-form structure , in which the functional basis of decomposition is preserved all the way up the hierarchy , more of top management 's time is devoted to these operational matters , whose pressing need for resolution gives them an urgency not usually attached to issues of a more long-run , strategic kind .
2 Much of this group 's time was spent in discussion and negotiation with Russian authorities in Moscow and Siberia , but one day was spent at a 30-year-old pumping station near Tyumen .
3 At the other end of the scale , none of the small libraries indicated that over a quarter of any individual 's time was devoted to training , although there was an overlap between small and medium sized libraries in other categories .
4 Because a very large part of any president 's time is taken up in the ceremonial , in the ritual , in meeting heads of states from other countries , from opening the equivalents of garden fetes , receiving parties of boy scouts , er and whatever else the Queen and her family do these days .
5 Reversing this statement , the present value of £1 10 to be received in one year 's time is £100 .
6 Similarly , the discounting factor for payments made in one year 's time is 100/110 or 0 91 .
7 Suppose that on 15 January , the 1 month and 2-month rates were the same at 9.25 per cent ; i.e. , the yield curve was flat over this range and expected to remain flat , so that the l-month rate starting in one month 's time is also expected to be 9.25 per cent .
8 So here 's to both teams and I hope the match in two year 's time is just as good as this was .
9 No that 's erm , a hundred pounds in thirty years ' time is equivalent to receiving two pounds today , that 's right as you say .
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