Example sentences of "[adv] in [art] [adj] [noun pl] ' " 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 | The current machinery broadly follows the framework of collective bargaining laid down in the 1980 Workers ' Statute . |
| 4 | However we agreed to visit Cedars together in a few days ' time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Judge William Hannah sentenced Elsdon to 21 months and Cook to 19 months , both in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | so she 's got to go back in a few weeks ' time |
| 11 | Well , we had a talk and she invited me to come back in a few days ' time . |
| 12 | Then in a few weeks ' time it will have been outstripped by the very events which it is shaping . |
| 13 | Our plan was to meet there in a few days ' time , once our researches in New York were concluded . |
| 14 | It may be noted that socio-economic conditions of parents ( as assessed by the father 's or the breadwinner 's occupation ) also play a role in the incidence of low birth weight ; it is the highest among the offspring of non-agricultural manual workers , lower among those whose father works in agriculture and lowest in the non-manual workers ' stratum . |
| 15 | Try leaving his nappy off again in a few months ' time . |
| 16 | When , for example , Myra played disappointingly in the Scottish Girls ' after having made so big an impact at the Scottish Championship at Lossiemouth , he had to take her on one side and explain that she was far too exhausted , physically , to be able to give of her best : " I told her that she had to learn to pace herself and decide which tournaments she felt to be important . " |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Ross started the first ever Bitches Rodeo in 1988 and Lesley followed the next year , paddling poorly in the small ladies ' competition but meeting up with her now great friend and rival , Mandy Castle . |
| 20 | During the early years of his reign Charles did intervene actively in the Thirty Years ' War by leading England into another war against Spain . |