Example sentences of "[adv] in a [adj] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in a few years ' time mobile phones will be brought to the masses . |
| 2 | However we agreed to visit Cedars together in a few days ' time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Judge William Hannah sentenced Elsdon to 21 months and Cook to 19 months , both in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 5 | Then in a few weeks ' time it will have been outstripped by the very events which it is shaping . |
| 6 | Our plan was to meet there in a few days ' time , once our researches in New York were concluded . |
| 7 | Try leaving his nappy off again in a few months ' time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |