Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ['s] time [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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1 | In a few months ' time she might hardly remember his name . |
2 | Lying in bed at night , she would remind herself that in only a few months ' time she would be his , and would have assumed his name and taken on the position of head of his household . |
3 | In a few months ' time I will take my G.C.S.E. ( General Certificate of Secondary Education ) . |
4 | Little did they guess that in a few years ' time they would be telling their friends and relatives about the superstar who used to live next door in the suburbs . |
5 | What did it matter if there would be no long-term future for them together — that in a few days ' time they would be separated by the cold grey expanse of the North Sea ? |
6 | Pete suggested that in a few days ' time he could take her out to the nearest big town on the coast , and there she could look for clothes in the department stores and check out the library for the addresses of any useful organisations or people to contact . |
7 | I 'm lucky , she told her reflection , and in a few days ' time I 'll be far away from this place , and without Piers around I 'll be able to put things back into perspective . |
8 | Then in a few weeks ' time it will have been outstripped by the very events which it is shaping . |
9 | So we 're watching that programme , Is this Your Last Cigarette ? or whatever it were called last Sunday on the telly and I thought I 'm stupid cos in six month 's time I shall say I could have packed up six months ago . |
10 | But in fifty years ' time we could be saying well did Jane pick the right one ? |
11 | ‘ In three years ' time we might have still been in very good shape but we must take steps to protect the UK as a manufacturing base . ’ |
12 | In three years ' time I would be doing |
13 | So in three year 's time we 'll back to where we are today , |
14 | Oh there was a tremendous variety , but then there were all the same in , erm you look at the er the three light fitting er it hangs down from the ceiling and has three branches out from it and it either has three lights hanging down or three hanging upwards , er with four ordinary bulbs in or candle bulbs in and shades , sometimes they have four , erm , there 's still an awful lot of those about and any lighting shop you look in you 'll still see plenty of those er and yet they 've got a tremendous number of disadvantages , one thing , a lot of them got glass shades , if you break one shade three year 's time you might as well throw away the fitting because you ca n't get another one er , and erm it 's a design that does n't , it does n't lend itself to giving a good lighting in a room at all er , it they , they harsh glassware , the edges of the glass during all round the room and that sort of thing |
15 | In eight week 's time he would be Virginia Grafton 's husband . |
16 | In ten years ' time we shall no doubt still be using the techniques discussed in this chapter but we may also have opened up new avenues of research by widening the range of materials examined and by using other scientific techniques which at present are only at the development stage . |
17 | In ten years ' time you 'll know why you were right to send off this coupon . |
18 | In ten years ' time you can choose to do the following : |
19 | 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 . |
20 | erm and I think that if it is pulled down for this new development , in ten year 's time we will look back and we will say ‘ Why did we do this ? |
21 | ‘ It 's good , though , because in ten year 's time you 'll be able to do family trees for records . |
22 | ‘ It 's good , though , because in ten year 's time you 'll be able to do family trees for records . |
23 | But' — and he laughed — ‘ do n't forget that in five years ' time you will have changed again . ’ |
24 | 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 . ’ |
25 | But I have a sneaking feeling that in another five years ' time I 'll be reviewing the GR-100 and that will be the one … |
26 | In one year 's time I would be doing At each stage you move backwards through time and ask your unconscious mind to help you see a picture of yourself being highly successful on your way to completion of your objectives . |
27 | In twenty years ' time they will remember their history teacher : his mannerisms , his irony and self-deprecating asides , his friendly interest in each of them . |
28 | In 40 years ' time they 'll say ‘ It was the first one out after the 400th Birthday Issue ’ . |
29 | In four hours ' time there will come a roar like an emergency pitstop at Silverstone , and the next feed will be due . |
30 | In two weeks ' time it would be one year since he had first come to Iraq . |