Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a few months ' time she might hardly remember his name . |
| 2 | With the tournament due to start in a couple of weeks ' time they would soon be past the point of no return . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | The gunners had been ordered to aim at the first two vessels , and at a bare two hundred yards ' range they could scarcely miss . |
| 5 | Oliver said that could have been easily accomplished by telling Shildon where they really were and if it were Shildon she had heard going through a desk in the typists ' room he must already have found out . |