Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [noun] it [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In two weeks ' time it would be one year since he had first come to Iraq . |
| 2 | Then in a few weeks ' time it will have been outstripped by the very events which it is shaping . |
| 3 | While this transformation depends fundamentally on workers ' initiatives it could be aided by a government using the financing relation ( 4 ) as a means of leverage . |
| 4 | It has also been asking the public what other composers ' works it might like to see , from Franz Lehar to Ivor Novello and Noel Coward . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In all probability , however , in the modern solicitors ' partnership it will have been agreed to leave goodwill out of account ( see below ) . |
| 9 | If it can retain its customers ' faith it could achieve the leadership position it covets by 1997 . |
| 10 | In their friends ' eyes it would have been unreasonably proprietorial of him not to have released her with a minimum of fuss . |
| 11 | If a local authority wished to open a new senior citizens ' home it would seem unreasonable to burden the current year 's community charge/council tax payers with the full cost of an asset that might have , say , 50 years ' useful life . |