Example sentences of "[unc] time [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a year 's time we may have to work out fresh deals for them but , whatever happens , they wo n't be leaving . |
| 2 | Nine months or a year 's time we may have a different animal working in that office and it may well be some person who has who does some J L O work to supplement John and does some project work , now er Jackie has indicated she 'd love to fill that role , and we all know what project she 'd want to be doing it , but er if we do put somebody in that role they will be project officer as well and on the wall will be a year planner and it 'll have things like crucial crew gala day and all these major major things and that particular officer will work quite closely with the new Pat and they 'll be able to take some of the weight off our shoulders so when we start planning for something like crucial crew you can delegate some of the work to the project officer and perhaps the other sergeant Now I know things do n't always work out quite that straightforwardly but you know the last year has been a bastard of a year for us in terms of sickness , four S L O's have been on long-term sick we 've lost Pat for all that time Jed was off for quite a while |
| 3 | In a month 's time we 'll have a quiet wedding in the local church , and after a few days in London we 'll travel through all the countries of Europe . ’ |
| 4 | So in three year 's time we 'll back to where we are today , |
| 5 | That is why in a fortnight 's time we will have at Westminster and at Broadcasting House the first fully digital editing equipment for radio in Europe . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | But pro-devolutionists warned that in a week 's time they would return in larger numbers , each bearing a fiery cross , the Jacobite symbol of warfare between the clans . |
| 8 | He had wanted to know if I knew a good cardiologist , because he had a granddaughter with a rare heart condition who needed an operation , or else in a year 's time she would have died . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In a week 's time you will find how easy it is to be perfectly objective with your child and at the same time kindly . |
| 11 | In 40 years ' time they 'll say ‘ It was the first one out after the 400th Birthday Issue ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | In a few months ' time I will take my G.C.S.E. ( General Certificate of Secondary Education ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Then in a few weeks ' time it will have been outstripped by the very events which it is shaping . |
| 17 | In ten years ' time you 'll know why you were right to send off this coupon . |
| 18 | But' — and he laughed — ‘ do n't forget that in five years ' time you will have changed again . ’ |
| 19 | In ten years ' time you can choose to do the following : |
| 20 | 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 . |