Example sentences of "[adv] in a [adj] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in a few years ' time mobile phones will be brought to the masses . |
| 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 | However we agreed to visit Cedars together in a few days ' time . |
| 4 | You 've said ‘ Fire ! ’ and seen the price of a dozen cameras blow away in a few seconds ' worth of flash and bang , with nothing left at the end to stick in the family album . |
| 5 | I 'm sure that er I 'm not in an unusual position er having been made redundant twice on the trot . |
| 6 | This fella came over in an 18–30 steward 's blazer and he said , ‘ You 're responsible for me working here ’ . |
| 7 | Erm try and where possible to use the individual communication with them as opposed to erm communicating to them as a member of a group preferably in a relaxed environment er rather than a sort of erm including any decision making pass on as much credit for that decision as possible |
| 8 | He found that a poor Tambov peasant who harvested 35 pudy of grain from one desiatin of land had to pay 15 pudy of it for the hire of a plough , 7 pudy for having the grain carted off in a richer man 's wagon , and to top it all 7 pudy in tax . |
| 9 | Once in a dirty butcher 's shop in Hackney and once in another scene of butchery . |
| 10 | Judge William Hannah sentenced Elsdon to 21 months and Cook to 19 months , both in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 11 | Many of them must have ended up in a British soldier 's mess-tin . |
| 12 | The sight of Peter Rabbit hanging up in an old-fashioned butcher 's window brings tears to our eyes , while pretty pink portions prepared and hacked by the supermarket cause no such qualms . |
| 13 | Production of the Japanese industry 's two principal profit earners — the F-15J fighter and the P-3C anti-submarine aircraft , both built under licence from the United States — will peter out in a few years ' time . |
| 14 | We will be reporting back in a few weeks ' time about this case and whether we have achieved a lasting and muzzle-free peace treaty between the battling Yorkies ! |
| 15 | They went away thanking her for her help , and promised to come back in a few weeks ' time when Bruno 's booster injection was due . |
| 16 | so she 's got to go back in a few weeks ' time |
| 17 | Well , we had a talk and she invited me to come back in a few days ' time . |
| 18 | Then in a few weeks ' time it will have been outstripped by the very events which it is shaping . |
| 19 | Our plan was to meet there in a few days ' time , once our researches in New York were concluded . |
| 20 | Try leaving his nappy off again in a few months ' time . |
| 21 | but if you if you if that 's all you do then in eve even a week 's time but definitely in a few months ' time it 's just gone . |
| 22 | I do n't want you to throw them away today , er , because you might actually in a few days ' time think of some use for them . |