Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adj] [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I do not want to know what she intends doing in a year 's time or in 10 years ' time , because she will not be in government then . |
2 | Follow your own energy , and do whatever attracts you — bearing in mind that an exercise might be helpful next week , or in six months ' time , rather than now . |
3 | At the end of five years , you 've got the option er and you can er then extend the er into the erm er next issue if you wish , or you can go on the extension rate , which is n't usually good , or in index-linked certificates ' case , they 'll perhaps give you indexation , but no er bonuses . |
4 | And his adviser said well Mr President you did say we should get rid of the missiles in Turkey but you did n't say when you know , you did n't say by Tuesday morning at ten o'clock or by next week or in three months ' time , you just said withdraw the missiles from Turkey . |
5 | Similar rules apply to loans and advances to credit institutions , with the additional categories of amounts payable on demand or at seven days ' notice and those payable within three months , although here where amounts are repayable by instalments each instalment is to be treated as a separate amount . |
6 | In the event , the document proved so unacceptable that after two days ' debate it was sent back for thorough revision . |
7 | But' — and he laughed — ‘ do n't forget that in five years ' time you will have changed again . ’ |
8 | If he managed economically he hoped that in five years ' time , if the public continued to buy what he wrote , he would retrieve more than he lost . |
9 | Mr Damant predicts that in five years ' time , if the ASB pursues unfudgeability rather than ‘ correct accounting principles ’ , it will be faced with dissatisfaction because accounts will not show a true and fair view . |
10 | The 40 staff execute 3,500 trades a day on average , and Vine-Lott has set himself a target of more than doubling that in five years ' time , including a considerable proportion on behalf of other institutions , such as the Halifax Building Society , for whom it is already doing work , as well as other brokers and banks . |
11 | Because how does Philip know that in five years ' time , I 'm not going to ring him up and say , hey you know when you recommended me to invest my money in the Japanese fund , well it 's just gone through the bottom of the market . |
12 | I assure the Minister that in six months ' time , when he is in opposition , we will be kinder to him and much more open with information . |
13 | It may be the case , as some transgenics junkies are claiming , that in 25 years ' time , all chickens on the market will be transgenic but this sounds uncannily similar , in its arrogant implausibility , to the famous Fifties claim that nuclear power would make electricity so cheap it could n't be metered . |
14 | Mr Faith adds : ‘ I 'm thinking ahead so that in 25 years ' time my daughter will say to her children ‘ Was n't grandad clever ? |
15 | Because no one had any idea of how to treat his illness , Moritz was kept in a locked ward for his own and for other patients ' safety . |
16 | Thirteen patients were studied before and after 2–12 weeks ' treatment with metronidazole 800 mg/day , while maintaining an unchanged NSAID intake . |
17 | From there , he took a direct flight to Larnaca , Cyprus , and after four hours ' sleep , caught the midnight ferry to Jounieh . |
18 | After Franco 's death and after 38 years ' absence he returned to Spain in 1977 , at the invitation of Suárez , and was in 1978 appointed president of the Catalonian regional government . |
19 | Promotion prospects are good and after 2 years ' training your salary should rise to £19,680 or more . |
20 | The course is of three years ' duration if French is taken as a minor subject and of four years ' duration if taken as a major or joint subject . |
21 | So it 's not Saturday , like in two days ' time ? |
22 | IBM has invested so much in the development of , and so much more in the marketing of , OS/2 2.0 that it has to plough on with it even if in 18 months ' time it becomes clear that it is becoming at best a respectable also-ran in the desktop stakes . |
23 | A ‘ baby boom ’ now could provide a large number of teachers in 20 years ' time ; but if in 15 years ' time , the birth rate were to be low , there would be insufficient children for these teachers to teach ( unless pupil/teacher ratios were to be changed ) . |
24 | I wonder if in ten years ' time Mr. Duggan will be looking back at videos of ‘ England 's glory years ’ and then be writing to RW&P to remind us of the lock forward who elbowed his opposite number from behind , perforating his eardrum , or the flankers who really do n't seem to mind where their feet or hands come into contact with their opponents . |
25 | International availability of lines is increasingly widespread , and in two years ' time ISDN will become the standard business line offering from BT . |
26 | 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 . ’ |
27 | Rule by the Council of State was succeeded by Oliver Cromwell 's unsuccessful military dictatorship , and in 1660 Charles ' son returned to assume the throne as Charles II . |
28 | And in six weeks ' time , we will know if the cup will remain with San Diego YC , or go to Italy , New Zealand , France or , less likely , Japan . |
29 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
30 | In 1471 Warwick failed to turn the duchy servants against Edward IV and in 1483 Hastings ' death was followed immediately by the transfer of the royal connection to his successor in office . |