Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ['s] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 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 | Little did they guess that in a few years ' time they would be telling their friends and relatives about the superstar who used to live next door in the suburbs . |
| 7 | What did it matter if there would be no long-term future for them together — that in a few days ' time they would be separated by the cold grey expanse of the North Sea ? |
| 8 | Pete suggested that in a few days ' time he could take her out to the nearest big town on the coast , and there she could look for clothes in the department stores and check out the library for the addresses of any useful organisations or people to contact . |
| 9 | I 'm lucky , she told her reflection , and in a few days ' time I 'll be far away from this place , and without Piers around I 'll be able to put things back into perspective . |
| 10 | Then in a few weeks ' time it will have been outstripped by the very events which it is shaping . |
| 11 | In the old King 's time he was in the garrison of the Tower , then he went abroad with others to fight in Outremer . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ In about six months ' time I 'm going to be a father . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But in fifty years ' time we could be saying well did Jane pick the right one ? |
| 15 | ‘ In three years ' time we might have still been in very good shape but we must take steps to protect the UK as a manufacturing base . ’ |
| 16 | In three years ' time it is likely that everything in the country , including rugby ticket prices , will have escalated by 45 per cent . |
| 17 | In three years ' time I would be doing |
| 18 | So in three year 's time we 'll back to where we are today , |
| 19 | Oh there was a tremendous variety , but then there were all the same in , erm you look at the er the three light fitting er it hangs down from the ceiling and has three branches out from it and it either has three lights hanging down or three hanging upwards , er with four ordinary bulbs in or candle bulbs in and shades , sometimes they have four , erm , there 's still an awful lot of those about and any lighting shop you look in you 'll still see plenty of those er and yet they 've got a tremendous number of disadvantages , one thing , a lot of them got glass shades , if you break one shade three year 's time you might as well throw away the fitting because you ca n't get another one er , and erm it 's a design that does n't , it does n't lend itself to giving a good lighting in a room at all er , it they , they harsh glassware , the edges of the glass during all round the room and that sort of thing |
| 20 | But in my great grannie 's time I think they did that . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In eight week 's time he would be Virginia Grafton 's husband . |
| 23 | In ten years ' time we shall no doubt still be using the techniques discussed in this chapter but we may also have opened up new avenues of research by widening the range of materials examined and by using other scientific techniques which at present are only at the development stage . |
| 24 | I , I would , I would be very surprised if the communists understood how deterministic idea of erm some sort of progression , I think you ca n't really say in about ten years ' time we 're gon na be here |
| 25 | In ten years ' time you can choose to do the following : |
| 26 | In ten years ' time you 'll know why you were right to send off this coupon . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | ‘ It 's good , though , because in ten year 's time you 'll be able to do family trees for records . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's good , though , because in ten year 's time you 'll be able to do family trees for records . |