Example sentences of "or a [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | People are anyway going to try and look for , lo look for explanations , and it may be that , you know , in fifty or a hundred years ' time , peoples insight into , into Freud 's findings are different . |
3 | And this is my personal view , as you know I think that people see , er , Freud completely differently in fifty or a hundred years ' time . |
4 | There were unexplained hold-ups , enemy strongpoints catching the leaders in heavy fire perhaps , or a few moments ' loss of direction as they probed forward . |
5 | It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way . |