Example sentences of "[noun] ['s] time [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today we use the word ‘ meditation ’ quite differently : in Hilton 's time it meant study rather than a purely contemplative exercise . |
| 2 | ‘ Since old Josh 's time it 's been used as a holiday retreat by various Proberts down the years , ’ he added , ‘ with some of the land let out for summer grazing to mainland farmers . ’ |
| 3 | I mean I know in about four months ' time I 've got a meeting in my diary with Alan . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In Suleyman 's time he returned to the medrese stream , teaching as far as the Sahn and then becoming kadi successively in Aleppo , Damascus and Istanbul , in retirement from which last post he died in 963/1555–6 . |
| 7 | But in my great grannie 's time I think they did that . |
| 8 | Then in about two weeks ' time we come to the carol service . |
| 9 | In two days ' time we reached Pakoku where many of the Anglo-Burmans begged me to disembark and try to walk out of Burma with them , but Rachel was still very sick and I said I would go on to Mandalay and hope to find a doctor there . |
| 10 | In two years ' time it 's planned it 'll be completely car-free . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ( 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 . ) |
| 13 | By Joshua 's time they had reached the point of no return . |
| 14 | When asked to forecast the level of unemployment in a year 's time he becomes uncharacteristically coy . |
| 15 | And in a year 's time I hope you will know all the multiplication tables up to twelve . |
| 16 | ‘ What I 'll be saying in a year 's time I do n't know . ’ |
| 17 | In a fortnight 's time she hopes to have 40 different organic producers and suppliers under one roof . |
| 18 | Since Pérignon 's time it has become evident that although the climate of Champagne barely manages to colour black grapes one particular variety , the Pinot Meunier , is the region 's most prolific producer and the vine least prone to the severe frosts experienced in the Marne valley . |