Example sentences of "[adj] months ' [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After eight months ' work it has acquired a life of its own . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Lying in bed at night , she would remind herself that in only a few months ' time she would be his , and would have assumed his name and taken on the position of head of his household . |
| 4 | In a few months ' time she might hardly remember his name . |
| 5 | In a few months ' time I will take my G.C.S.E. ( General Certificate of Secondary Education ) . |
| 6 | ‘ In about six months ' time I 'm going to be a father . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job . |
| 8 | IBM has invested so much in the development of , and so much more in the marketing of , OS/2 2.0 that it has to plough on with it even if in 18 months ' time it becomes clear that it is becoming at best a respectable also-ran in the desktop stakes . |
| 9 | During her 13 months ' service she escorted more than 700 ships across the world 's beleaguered oceans , without loss of a single one . |
| 10 | I mean I know in about four months ' time I 've got a meeting in my diary with Alan . |