Example sentences of "' time [pers pn] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | What did it matter if there would be no long-term future for them together — that in a few days ' time they would be separated by the cold grey expanse of the North Sea ? |
| 3 | With the tournament due to start in a couple of weeks ' time they would soon be past the point of no return . |
| 4 | To achieve this in four years ' time I would be doing |
| 5 | In three years ' time I would be doing |
| 6 | In two years ' time I would be doing |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | In two weeks ' time it would be one year since he had first come to Iraq . |
| 10 | Lying in bed at night , she would remind herself that in only a few months ' time she would be his , and would have assumed his name and taken on the position of head of his household . |