Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | After eight months ' work it has acquired a life of its own . |
| 2 | In its fifty years ' existence it has poured out a stream of bishops , priests , doctors , engineers , businessmen , civil servants and politicians . |
| 3 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 4 | In three years ' time it is likely that everything in the country , including rugby ticket prices , will have escalated by 45 per cent . |
| 5 | IBM has invested so much in the development of , and so much more in the marketing of , OS/2 2.0 that it has to plough on with it even if in 18 months ' time it becomes clear that it is becoming at best a respectable also-ran in the desktop stakes . |
| 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | In two weeks ' time it would be one year since he had first come to Iraq . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In two years ' time it 's planned it 'll be completely car-free . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In the event , the document proved so unacceptable that after two days ' debate it was sent back for thorough revision . |