Example sentences of "[num] year ' [noun sg] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Work out how many woodlice you will have in 10 years ' time if they continue to multiply at this rate . |
2 | My husband who earns good money , gets a pension in 10 years ' time and he says we 'll return then . |
3 | Chief Supt Bill Hills , head of the force 's uniform operations department , will have completed more than 35 years ' service when he leaves the job . |
4 | ‘ This may rise to about 20 in three years ' time if we do well . |
5 | The hon. Gentleman is trying to guess what the market price will be in X years ' time and what proportion of the market will be accounted for by coal . |
6 | And in those days you had to have fifteen years ' training before anyone would really look at you . |
7 | Membership of a " terrorist group " was punishable by five years ' imprisonment and it also became a crime to possess " directly or indirectly " written or recorded materials condoning " terrorist " activity . |
8 | It would be surprising if benchmarking attracts as much media attention in five years ' time as it does now . |
9 | erm There are indications that in perhaps twenty years ' time that there might be some novel applications of lasers . |
10 | I hope that he and his fellow enthusiasts of today will derive as much pleasure from looking back in 50 or 60 years ' time as I do from my battered old album . |
11 | Recorder John Hugill , QC , placed him on two years ' probation after he heard he was now an ‘ emotional wreck ’ . |
12 | Six months before her overdose Liz terminated the relationship with her boyfriend of two years ' standing after she discovered he had been going out with another girl . |
13 | As well as two years ' placement or something . |
14 | He described how it was only after four years ' teaching that he had begun to question what he was doing on the grounds of both commonsense and increasing knowledge . |