Example sentences of "[adj] year ['s] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . ’ |
| 32 | But I have a sneaking feeling that in another five years ' time I 'll be reviewing the GR-100 and that will be the one … |
| 33 | In one year 's time I would be doing At each stage you move backwards through time and ask your unconscious mind to help you see a picture of yourself being highly successful on your way to completion of your objectives . |
| 34 | Though all this may sound complicated , after the first year 's practice it becomes merely routine . |
| 35 | In twenty years ' time they will remember their history teacher : his mannerisms , his irony and self-deprecating asides , his friendly interest in each of them . |
| 36 | In 40 years ' time they 'll say ‘ It was the first one out after the 400th Birthday Issue ’ . |
| 37 | Employees ' attitudes er were fairly stable , fairly stable and some of the work that was done was so highly skilled er that it needed a craftsman 's experience to be able to get to that stage of being able to turn a job you know , to very fine limits , or to grind an objective to absolutely no limits , or to , to assemble a job with all the skill and the know-how that had been built up over his twenty five or thirty years ' experience you know , along with his colleagues . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | I 've just had a Christmas card from my old healthy friend ; so that 's two years ' service they 've lost for starters . |
| 41 | " The greens as yet are slow but in two years ' time they will be difficult but a very good test of touch and eye . |
| 42 | In two years ' time I would be doing |
| 43 | In two years ' time it 's planned it 'll be completely car-free . |
| 44 | In the course of two years ' research he 's discovered a great deal but admits there are gaps that he would like to fill . ‘ |
| 45 | Historically , the minimum subscription Association 's affiliated organizations and clubs has been set that twice the personal member 's subscription and after a period of two years ' grace it 's the Council 's wish that this balance is re-established so that the relativity returns to that which existed prior to the increase in subscriptions that was proposed at the A G M in nineteen ninety one . |
| 46 | After four years ' courtship they were married in 1874 — he was 34 , she 33 . |
| 47 | To achieve this in four years ' time I would be doing |
| 48 | In his new year 's message he urged the government to mitigate its harshest effects . |
| 49 | On New Year 's Eve we skip the next four years and go straight into 1977 . |
| 50 | ‘ The generous responses by so many people was amazing and by New Year 's Eve we had raised £4,181 , ’ said Joan . |
| 51 | Christmas no new year 's eve we went to a party . |
| 52 | They have given many parties in their time , but on New Year 's Eve they have always gone out to the gatherings of others — sometimes to several gatherings in the course of the evening , and some years separately , not always meeting even for the magic chimes . |
| 53 | On New Year 's Eve they made |
| 54 | On New Year 's Eve he had been ill . |
| 55 | When they had gone to bed together on New Year 's Eve it had been like a revelation to him . |
| 56 | On New Year 's Day they briefly topped the division , but since then have lost players and impetus . |
| 57 | On New Year 's Day they briefly topped the division , but since then have lost players and impetus . |
| 58 | On New Year 's Day they topped the division for a couple of hours . |
| 59 | On New Year 's Day they topped the division for a couple of hours . |
| 60 | On the afternoon of New Year 's Day we reached the road end , picked the car up and returned to Queenstown . |