Example sentences of "[noun] ['s] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | " The greens as yet are slow but in two years ' time they will be difficult but a very good test of touch and eye . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | Hal B. Wallis , who hired me , was a very shrewd man who recognized that the studio system was over and in five years ' time it would no longer be there . ’ |
| 34 | Everyone I met kept apologising for the shabby state of the buildings and I had the feeling that if I went back in ten years ' time it would look like the set for some grand-scale horror film , all broken banging shutters and cobwebbed windows . |
| 35 | In three years ' time it is likely that everything in the country , including rugby ticket prices , will have escalated by 45 per cent . |
| 36 | In two years ' time it 's planned it 'll be completely car-free . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | But I have a sneaking feeling that in another five years ' time I 'll be reviewing the GR-100 and that will be the one … |
| 39 | To achieve this in four years ' time I would be doing |
| 40 | In three years ' time I would be doing |
| 41 | In two years ' time I would be doing |
| 42 | But' — and he laughed — ‘ do n't forget that in five years ' time you will have changed again . ’ |
| 43 | In ten years ' time you can choose to do the following : |
| 44 | In ten years ' time you 'll know why you were right to send off this coupon . |
| 45 | The dinosaurs were the highest form of reptile , but in Owen 's time they were the earliest known members of the class — exactly the reverse of what would have been predicted by a theory of continuous development . |
| 46 | ( Today no one would dare propose such a thing , even purely as a thought experiment , but in Schrödinger 's time they had not heard of animal liberation . ) |
| 47 | In the old King 's time he was in the garrison of the Tower , then he went abroad with others to fight in Outremer . ’ |
| 48 | In a month 's time we 'll have a quiet wedding in the local church , and after a few days in London we 'll travel through all the countries of Europe . ’ |
| 49 | So we 're watching that programme , Is this Your Last Cigarette ? or whatever it were called last Sunday on the telly and I thought I 'm stupid cos in six month 's time I shall say I could have packed up six months ago . |
| 50 | See in the latter part of my , my father 's time he was n't a well man , was he ? |
| 51 | But pro-devolutionists warned that in a week 's time they would return in larger numbers , each bearing a fiery cross , the Jacobite symbol of warfare between the clans . |
| 52 | In a week 's time it would be the longest day of the year when , in these latitudes , a gunner could accurately sight a twelve-pounder at half-past nine of an evening . |
| 53 | In eight week 's time he would be Virginia Grafton 's husband . |
| 54 | In a week 's time you will find how easy it is to be perfectly objective with your child and at the same time kindly . |
| 55 | Furnished as it was in Cook 's time it 's now a museum containing many artefacts connected with Cook and his voyages . |
| 56 | By Joshua 's time they had reached the point of no return . |
| 57 | In a year 's time we may have to work out fresh deals for them but , whatever happens , they wo n't be leaving . |
| 58 | So in three year 's time we 'll back to where we are today , |
| 59 | Nine months or a year 's time we may have a different animal working in that office and it may well be some person who has who does some J L O work to supplement John and does some project work , now er Jackie has indicated she 'd love to fill that role , and we all know what project she 'd want to be doing it , but er if we do put somebody in that role they will be project officer as well and on the wall will be a year planner and it 'll have things like crucial crew gala day and all these major major things and that particular officer will work quite closely with the new Pat and they 'll be able to take some of the weight off our shoulders so when we start planning for something like crucial crew you can delegate some of the work to the project officer and perhaps the other sergeant Now I know things do n't always work out quite that straightforwardly but you know the last year has been a bastard of a year for us in terms of sickness , four S L O's have been on long-term sick we 've lost Pat for all that time Jed was off for quite a while |
| 60 | erm and I think that if it is pulled down for this new development , in ten year 's time we will look back and we will say ‘ Why did we do this ? |