Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ' time [pers pn] [modal v] " 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 But in fifty years ' time we could be saying well did Jane pick the right one ?
10 ‘ 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 . ’
11 In three years ' time I would be doing
12 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 .
13 In ten years ' time you 'll know why you were right to send off this coupon .
14 In ten years ' time you can choose to do the following :
15 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 .
16 But' — and he laughed — ‘ do n't forget that in five years ' time you will have changed again . ’
17 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 . ’
18 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 …
19 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 .
20 In 40 years ' time they 'll say ‘ It was the first one out after the 400th Birthday Issue ’ .
21 In two weeks ' time it would be one year since he had first come to Iraq .
22 And I like to think in fifty or a hundred years ' time it will not be possible for any orchestra to play sloppily and claim that it is not possible to do better .
23 " The greens as yet are slow but in two years ' time they will be difficult but a very good test of touch and eye .
24 In two years ' time I would be doing
25 To achieve this in four years ' time I would be doing
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