Example sentences of "a [adj] year ' [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few years ' disgrace they were back living quietly but comfortably in Moscow . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In a hundred years ' time your Fuselis will look as old as they are , not as old as they should be . |