Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ['s] time [vb mod] " in BNC.
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1 | The dilemma of whether to improve ( or not ) an old building which may not be needed in a few years ' time can last for decades . |
2 | Everything depended on the weather and if your luck was out the hired man 's time could be up and not much hay in . |
3 | I 'll tell you : we 're leaving because the little cheat 's time will be up at midnight , son , that 's why . |
4 | And we 're always revising that picture of the past , in other words , somebody else in twenty-five years ' time will have to do a different kind of social history . |
5 | My goal in five years ' time would be |
6 | Even so , it was hard to believe that his birthday in two days ' time would be only his twelfth . |
7 | A lot of creative people 's time will have been wasted if the programme does n't go out . |