Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ' time [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What in the world would the company be like in a few years ' time if such people were in the driving seat ? |
| 2 | ‘ You see , Brownies , this hall is being pulled down in a few weeks ' time and new houses put up in its place , and there just does n't seem to be anywhere else for us to meet . |
| 3 | The winner will be announced in six weeks ' time and both the winning plumber and the nominator will receive holidays to Majorca . |
| 4 | ‘ Surely this can not be justified as an effective use of civil servants ' time or public money . ’ |
| 5 | But we can not estimate so reliably how many of these will seek university places in 17 or 18 years ' time since this will be affected so much by changeable social and economic factors . |
| 6 | I could imagine institutions , for example , being told to be in a different position perhaps in five years ' time or ten years ' time , and being able to do this by a variety of means , working towards it , whereas , it seems to me it 's a very much harder problem , although it 's , it 's understandable as I said in the , in the present circumstances , to actually be able to take on this properly and do a proper job of change in a time scale of perhaps one year or maybe even less than that in some cases . |
| 7 | Now , what the potential migrant will do , Harrison Todaro assumed , was to say , right what they 'll do is that they 'll , these migrants will mentally calculate the present value of receiving W A throughout their lifetime , right , and they 'll discount erm those wages by appropriate discount rate , reflecting the fact that a hundred pounds today is worth a lot more than a hundred pounds twenty years ' time or thirty years ' time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But I usually arrange with a client over what 's seen in two years ' time or one year 's time , whatever . |