Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adj] years ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not want to know what she intends doing in a year 's time or in 10 years ' time , because she will not be in government then . |
| 2 | After Franco 's death and after 38 years ' absence he returned to Spain in 1977 , at the invitation of Suárez , and was in 1978 appointed president of the Catalonian regional government . |
| 3 | Promotion prospects are good and after 2 years ' training your salary should rise to £19,680 or more . |
| 4 | The course is of three years ' duration if French is taken as a minor subject and of four years ' duration if taken as a major or joint subject . |
| 5 | International availability of lines is increasingly widespread , and in two years ' time ISDN will become the standard business line offering from BT . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Without bitterness , but with five years ' experience , Lord Wilson said yesterday : ‘ No Governor should expect this job to be a bed of roses or to get plaudits or easy popularity . |
| 8 | But in fifty years ' time we could be saying well did Jane pick the right one ? |
| 9 | " The greens as yet are slow but in two years ' time they will be difficult but a very good test of touch and eye . |
| 10 | But in three years ' time Sainsbury will hit the North Sea . |
| 11 | Chop it up into elephant steaks , bung it into the deep freeze , and over a period of say two , three years , every Friday night have an elephant steak , but in three years ' time , I will have actually achieved my objective . |