Example sentences of "[unc] time the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a show due to open for its first public preview in a week 's time The Hooded Owl was in far from promising shape . |
| 2 | Schools universities and colleges in er about a year 's time the first resales . |
| 3 | It is beyond question that by Civizade 's time the learned hierarchy had become greatly elaborated relative to its state in Hocazade 's time , and a scholar 's progress through it is more or less predictable . |
| 4 | During Richard Webb 's time the large , gabled clothier 's house was built . |
| 5 | They belonged to a category of fabric called fustian ( derived from the name of the Egyptian town where it originated ) , and by Shakespeare 's time the very word fustian had become synonymous with bombast and pretentiousness . |
| 6 | So she said I 'm coming up in a fortnight 's time the fourteenth cos it 's David 's birthday that week |
| 7 | It was also agreed to review in three years ' time the entire stock of debt to the Paris Club governments , estimated at the end of 1990 to comprise $5,700 million of the total external debt of $10,500 million . |
| 8 | In ten years ' time the English language will not be worth speaking . " |