Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] year ['s] [noun] it " in BNC.

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1 Historically , the minimum subscription Association 's affiliated organizations and clubs has been set that twice the personal member 's subscription and after a period of two years ' grace it 's the Council 's wish that this balance is re-established so that the relativity returns to that which existed prior to the increase in subscriptions that was proposed at the A G M in nineteen ninety one .
2 Judging by accounts of last year 's knees-up it 's going to be a night to remember — a carnival of flesh — a drink and drugs frenzy .
3 The way their luck has run in this year 's competition it is no idle dream .
4 The way their luck has run in this year 's competition it is no idle dream .
5 In three years ' time it is likely that everything in the country , including rugby ticket prices , will have escalated by 45 per cent .
6 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 .
7 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 . ’
8 In two years ' time it 's planned it 'll be completely car-free .
9 In next year 's Budget it is to be hoped he will take a further opportunity to reduce the differentials between Scotch and wine . ’
10 When they had gone to bed together on New Year 's Eve it had been like a revelation to him .
11 In Elizabethan days , rosemary shoots were tied with coloured ribbon , tipped with gold and given to guests at weddings to symbolize love and faithfulness , and on New Year 's Day it was a gift for guests , together with an orange stuck with cloves .
12 Then very shortly after her birth on New Year 's Day it was realised she had a heart problem .
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