Example sentences of "years ['s] [noun] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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1 | The differing styles of these articles mean they are not all suited to publication in similar outlets , but it is hoped that unlike past years ' winners we shall see all of them published in some form or other in the coming year . |
2 | In ten years ' time we shall no doubt still be using the techniques discussed in this chapter but we may also have opened up new avenues of research by widening the range of materials examined and by using other scientific techniques which at present are only at the development stage . |
3 | ‘ In three years ' time we might have still been in very good shape but we must take steps to protect the UK as a manufacturing base . ’ |
4 | But in fifty years ' time we could be saying well did Jane pick the right one ? |
5 | In 40 years ' time they 'll say ‘ It was the first one out after the 400th Birthday Issue ’ . |
6 | Little did they guess that in a few years ' time they would be telling their friends and relatives about the superstar who used to live next door in the suburbs . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | " The greens as yet are slow but in two years ' time they will be difficult but a very good test of touch and eye . |
9 | 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 . ’ |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | To achieve this in four years ' time I would be doing |
13 | In three years ' time I would be doing |
14 | In two years ' time I would be doing |
15 | But I have a sneaking feeling that in another five years ' time I 'll be reviewing the GR-100 and that will be the one … |
16 | In ten years ' time you 'll know why you were right to send off this coupon . |
17 | But' — and he laughed — ‘ do n't forget that in five years ' time you will have changed again . ’ |
18 | In ten years ' time you can choose to do the following : |