Example sentences of "[adv] in a few [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 | 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | so she 's got to go back in a few weeks ' time |
| 9 | Well , we had a talk and she invited me to come back in a few days ' time . |
| 10 | Then in a few weeks ' time it will have been outstripped by the very events which it is shaping . |
| 11 | Our plan was to meet there in a few days ' time , once our researches in New York were concluded . |
| 12 | Try leaving his nappy off again in a few months ' time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |