Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] [unc] time [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | What did it matter if there would be no long-term future for them together — that in a few days ' time they would be separated by the cold grey expanse of the North Sea ? |
2 | I 'm lucky , she told her reflection , and in a few days ' time I 'll be far away from this place , and without Piers around I 'll be able to put things back into perspective . |
3 | Pete suggested that in a few days ' time he could take her out to the nearest big town on the coast , and there she could look for clothes in the department stores and check out the library for the addresses of any useful organisations or people to contact . |
4 | Little did they guess that in a few years ' time they would be telling their friends and relatives about the superstar who used to live next door in the suburbs . |
5 | Then in a few weeks ' time it will have been outstripped by the very events which it is shaping . |
6 | Lying in bed at night , she would remind herself that in only a few months ' time she would be his , and would have assumed his name and taken on the position of head of his household . |
7 | In a few months ' time she might hardly remember his name . |
8 | In a few months ' time I will take my G.C.S.E. ( General Certificate of Secondary Education ) . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | In a hundred years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg , putting the pad aside , began to type again ) , in a hundred years ' time I said to him , ( he typed ) no one will remember either you or me . |
11 | And I like to think in fifty or a hundred years ' time it will not be possible for any orchestra to play sloppily and claim that it is not possible to do better . |
12 | In a hundred years ' time your Fuselis will look as old as they are , not as old as they should be . |