Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [noun sg] it [modal v] " 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 | 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 . ’ |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | In all probability , however , in the modern solicitors ' partnership it will have been agreed to leave goodwill out of account ( see below ) . |
7 | If it can retain its customers ' faith it could achieve the leadership position it covets by 1997 . |
8 | 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 . |