Example sentences of "years ' [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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31 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 …
32 To achieve this in four years ' time I would be doing
33 In three years ' time I would be doing
34 In two years ' time I would be doing
35 But' — and he laughed — ‘ do n't forget that in five years ' time you will have changed again . ’
36 In ten years ' time you can choose to do the following :
37 In ten years ' time you 'll know why you were right to send off this coupon .
38 Mr Faith adds : ‘ I 'm thinking ahead so that in 25 years ' time my daughter will say to her children ‘ Was n't grandad clever ?
39 After a few years ' disgrace they were back living quietly but comfortably in Moscow .
40 17 patients with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus of more than five years ' duration who had reported altered hypoglycaemia awareness within three months of transferring to human insulin .
41 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 .
42 Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) .
43 In the course of two years ' research he 's discovered a great deal but admits there are gaps that he would like to fill . ‘
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