Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun pl] ' time it " in BNC.
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1 | In three years ' time it is likely that everything in the country , including rugby ticket prices , will have escalated by 45 per cent . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . ’ |
5 | In two weeks ' time it would be one year since he had first come to Iraq . |
6 | In two years ' time it 's planned it 'll be completely car-free . |