Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] ['s] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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31 | 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 . |
32 | In 40 years ' time they 'll say ‘ It was the first one out after the 400th Birthday Issue ’ . |
33 | I mean I know in about four months ' time I 've got a meeting in my diary with Alan . |
34 | 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 . |
35 | The thirty days ' standard he applies to his suppliers is the thirty days standard he expects from his customers . |
36 | Then in about two weeks ' time we come to the carol service . |
37 | In two weeks ' time it would be one year since he had first come to Iraq . |
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 | In two days ' time we reached Pakoku where many of the Anglo-Burmans begged me to disembark and try to walk out of Burma with them , but Rachel was still very sick and I said I would go on to Mandalay and hope to find a doctor there . |
47 | In the event , the document proved so unacceptable that after two days ' debate it was sent back for thorough revision . |
48 | After four years ' courtship they were married in 1874 — he was 34 , she 33 . |
49 | To achieve this in four years ' time I would be doing |
50 | The gunners had been ordered to aim at the first two vessels , and at a bare two hundred yards ' range they could scarcely miss . |
51 | They allowed the cameras into Kensington palace and Highgrove but in the space of two evenings ' viewing they came perilously close to destroying that magic ingredient that is so essential to the monarchy : its mystique . |