Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] ['s] [noun] it " in BNC.

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1 After a few minutes ' walk it seemed she had truly left the hamlet of Pook 's Common behind .
2 Even with a few days ' rehearsal it was an unnerving experience .
3 Then in a few weeks ' time it will have been outstripped by the very events which it is shaping .
4 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 .
5 The following morning he told me what a wonderful night 's sleep it had given him and was fulsome in his praise of what he called his ‘ beautiful lady ’ .
6 All the rest depend on this being present , for if a procedure is not appropriate to a particular patient 's condition it can not be judged quality care ( Shaw undated ) .
7 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 .
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