Example sentences of "in [num] years ' time " in BNC.

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31 The Department of Energy estimates that 10 per cent of our electricity could come from hot dry rock in 125 years ' time .
32 It may be the case , as some transgenics junkies are claiming , that in 25 years ' time , all chickens on the market will be transgenic but this sounds uncannily similar , in its arrogant implausibility , to the famous Fifties claim that nuclear power would make electricity so cheap it could n't be metered .
33 Mintel has extrapolated the figures , assuming the same level of inflation , and reckons the simplest funeral could cost a bereaved family £6,230 in 25 years ' time .
34 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 ?
35 That , if you spend the span of your life making sure that you 'll still be here in twenty-five years ' time , you 're wasting your life away .
36 And we 're always revising that picture of the past , in other words , somebody else in twenty-five years ' time will have to do a different kind of social history .
37 And somebody else with different experience from me , writing in twenty-five years ' time , will produce a very different book from mine .
38 In ten years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , they may still remember us both .
39 But I did have to worry about whether we were going to have the cash flow in ten years ' time to make sure that the parts can be paid for so the chap on the shop floor can stick the thing together .
40 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 .
41 ‘ I do n't want to be walking around in ten years ' time with people shouting ‘ Loadsamoney ’ at me ’
42 ‘ I do n't want to be walking around in ten years ' time with people shouting ‘ Loadsamoney ’ at me ’
43 ‘ I do n't want to be walking down the street in ten years ' time with people shouting ‘ Loasdamoney ’ at me , ’ he says .
44 Who will be in charge of Germany in ten years ' time ?
45 What would happen , we asked , if new information in ten years ' time showed that the people working inside Hinkley C had been in even greater danger ?
46 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 .
47 In ten years ' time you can choose to do the following :
48 How would you like to see yourself in ten years ' time ?
49 If I were to rewrite this book in ten years ' time , in the light of further research and experience , my own views might well have changed somewhat .
50 In ten years ' time , when Sinead has made her mistakes , sung out all her emotional baggage , then she will start to do the real work with her extraordinary power .
51 I wonder if in ten years ' time Mr. Duggan will be looking back at videos of ‘ England 's glory years ’ and then be writing to RW&P to remind us of the lock forward who elbowed his opposite number from behind , perforating his eardrum , or the flankers who really do n't seem to mind where their feet or hands come into contact with their opponents .
52 By being doctrinaire and parochial , it is easy to have a whole host of companies competing in the same home market ; but how many will be effective ( or even in business ) in ten years ' time ?
53 In ten years ' time you 'll know why you were right to send off this coupon .
54 ( One Judge even going so far as to say , ‘ In ten years ' time , 1989 may well be seen as the year when Vauxhall redefined the sports coupé . ’ )
55 In ten years ' time the Esquire piece will be required reading for any journalist or student researching one of the few creative talents in the cinema today .
56 In ten years ' time the English language will not be worth speaking . "
57 Today , the result of our labours was several long rows of planted saplings which , in ten years ' time , will have grown into a grove of pussy willows doing useful service as a screen for walkers .
58 ‘ If we 're chatting again in ten years ' time , ’ he said , ‘ we 'd almost certainly be in this cabin , but we might need some new cushions by then . ’
59 As Tone Vine-Lott , managing director of Barclays Stockbrokers and new chairman of the Scottish Stock Exchange ( and , as an IT man , nothing like the stockbroker stereotype ) , points out in Money Talks , the stockbroking game will still have changed out of all recognition in ten years ' time .
60 Erm , the storage binder , we , we , er , anticipate that you of course , will wind up with shelves full of storage binders housing various diaries , and you 'll want to know in ten years ' time , which storage binder has your nineteen ninety-four diary , erm , that 's what that label is for .
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