Example sentences of "in five [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 They may reawaken memories of happier times-'my husband would have done that in five minutes ' .
2 She had been intending to go in five minutes ' time , when she had drunk her cup of weak tea .
3 ‘ Your birthday 's in five days ' time . ’
4 This is why they ask you things like , on interviews , and they ask you , where do you see yourself in five years ' time , and I used to say , I do n't even see meself where I 'm going to be in five days ' time , never mind five , just give us the bloody job .
5 He had been Head of Modern Languages since 1920 , and was due to retire in five months ' time .
6 But' — and he laughed — ‘ do n't forget that in five years ' time you will have changed again . ’
7 He was due to oversee Italy 's entry into the European single market next year and to the single currency in five years ' time .
8 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 . ’
9 Wondered what woman , if any , I should be thinking about in five years ' time . ’
10 And the share of military expenditure devoted to purchases of new equipment will grow from 23 per cent last year to 39 per cent in five years ' time .
11 Was strauss really so ineffectual in five years ' correspondence with Hofmannsthal about the opera ?
12 If he managed economically he hoped that in five years ' time , if the public continued to buy what he wrote , he would retrieve more than he lost .
13 It would be surprising if benchmarking attracts as much media attention in five years ' time as it does now .
14 Mr Damant predicts that in five years ' time , if the ASB pursues unfudgeability rather than ‘ correct accounting principles ’ , it will be faced with dissatisfaction because accounts will not show a true and fair view .
15 It 's a fairly safe bet that the ASB will be heavily criticised in five years ' time in any case ; that 's just a fact of life that standard-setters in the UK have to accept .
16 WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN FIVE YEARS ' TIME ?
17 Close your eyes and imagine yourself somewhere in five years ' time .
18 If you can imagine your goal , where you want to be in five years ' time , then you are already part of the way there .
19 If you were to achieve your goal in five years ' time , what would you have to be doing in four years ' time to get there ?
20 My goal in five years ' time would be
21 In five years ' time , if the value has fallen below what was invested , you will receive a cheque refunding the difference .
22 WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN FIVE YEARS ' TIME ? :
23 This is the kind of record that people will talk about in five years ' time .
24 The table shows the percentage of respondents that predicted dominance in five years ' time for each of seven operating systems listed in the table .
25 She should look after herself , as well , and he would see her in five years ' time .
26 The debentures have a face value of £1.5 million , an annual interest rate of 10 per cent , mature in five years ' time and are currently selling at their face value .
27 How many SSDs will be able to say the same in five years ' time ?
28 What will happen to me , how I 'll develop , what I 'll be in five years ' time , in ten , in thirty .
29 The 40 staff execute 3,500 trades a day on average , and Vine-Lott has set himself a target of more than doubling that in five years ' time , including a considerable proportion on behalf of other institutions , such as the Halifax Building Society , for whom it is already doing work , as well as other brokers and banks .
30 They can put figures down er you know writing things off erm whatsit twenty percent per year for a machine right in five years ' time that machine is scrap .
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