Example sentences of "[noun] [unc] time it [vb mod] " in BNC.
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1 | In two weeks ' time it would be one year since he had first come to Iraq . |
2 | Then in a few weeks ' time it will have been outstripped by the very events which it is shaping . |
3 | 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 . ’ |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Also , innovative ideas do tend to work their way down to the more affordable guitars and equipment , so it might not be for you now , but maybe in a year 's time it will be . |