Example sentences of "' time it [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In two weeks ' time it would be one year since he had first come to Iraq . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Then in a few weeks ' time it will have been outstripped by the very events which it is shaping . |