Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ' time [coord] " in BNC.
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1 | She has an 18-year-old son , who plans to go to university in a few months ' time and the thought of life on her own fills her with anxiety . |
2 | ‘ Clive Griffiths , the Welsh coach , may persuade me to play against France in a few weeks ' time but I have made up my mind to call it a day , ’ he said last night . |
3 | ‘ You see , Brownies , this hall is being pulled down in a few weeks ' time and new houses put up in its place , and there just does n't seem to be anywhere else for us to meet . |
4 | Not only that , but on hatching , the young cuckoo throws out the host species ' own eggs or young so that it has no competition for the foster parents ' time and attention . |
5 | So again there 's some restatement , so just to clarify things we 're looking at primarily life insurance for yourself and your wife savings plan for your daughter PHI say in six months ' time and pension planning is the , the least of your , your main concerns today , would that be the case yeah I guess so . |
6 | Sixty-five per cent of the economy will remain in state hands in six years ' time and workers will no longer elect managers . |
7 | My husband who earns good money , gets a pension in 10 years ' time and he says we 'll return then . |
8 | The winner will be announced in six weeks ' time and both the winning plumber and the nominator will receive holidays to Majorca . |
9 | ‘ Surely this can not be justified as an effective use of civil servants ' time or public money . ’ |
10 | But King He can expect to be freed in three years ' time but Don King is convinced the former champion 's conviction will be overturned at a forthcoming appeal . |
11 | The hon. Gentleman is trying to guess what the market price will be in X years ' time and what proportion of the market will be accounted for by coal . |
12 | The principal reason is that the Government will be defeated in four or five months ' time and be replaced by a Labour Government who will take the Bill off the statute book as soon as they come to power . |
13 | I could imagine institutions , for example , being told to be in a different position perhaps in five years ' time or ten years ' time , and being able to do this by a variety of means , working towards it , whereas , it seems to me it 's a very much harder problem , although it 's , it 's understandable as I said in the , in the present circumstances , to actually be able to take on this properly and do a proper job of change in a time scale of perhaps one year or maybe even less than that in some cases . |
14 | The debentures have a face value of £1.5 million , an annual interest rate of 10 per cent , mature in five years ' time and are currently selling at their face value . |
15 | Now , what the potential migrant will do , Harrison Todaro assumed , was to say , right what they 'll do is that they 'll , these migrants will mentally calculate the present value of receiving W A throughout their lifetime , right , and they 'll discount erm those wages by appropriate discount rate , reflecting the fact that a hundred pounds today is worth a lot more than a hundred pounds twenty years ' time or thirty years ' time . |
16 | and then if that 's okay with you I 'll come back in about two weeks ' time and |
17 | Ag again with the , the recommendations I think you , you , you went on to say can I , can I go forward in , in getting the recommendations erm without actually explaining what you were doing , you just came back and said so I 'll go ahead and get the recommendations and come back and see you in two weeks ' time and like what recommendation ? |
18 | So he said erm but we ha being refurbished in four weeks ' time and we 've got to sell everything in the shop |
19 | But I usually arrange with a client over what 's seen in two years ' time or one year 's time , whatever . |
20 | The fanfare of catwalk shows , exhibitions , and the production of designs that may never be worn , take up a great deal of most designers ' time and money . |