Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [num] years ' time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In theory , you could see me in the Sunshine Home for Impoverished Journalists in 40 years ' time , tripping the nurses over with my Zimmer frame in the hope that they 'll let me father their child . |
| 2 | According to Mark Doran , Unix International 's technical project manager , Application Linking wo n't be a full object-oriented specification and is intended only as a stop-gap definition until the Object Group delivers object linking and embedding guidelines in two years ' time . |
| 3 | No that 's erm , a hundred pounds in thirty years ' time is equivalent to receiving two pounds today , that 's right as you say . |
| 4 | Well what I want to have is erm something like twenty eight , thirty thousand pounds in ten years ' time . |
| 5 | A ‘ baby boom ’ now could provide a large number of teachers in 20 years ' time ; but if in 15 years ' time , the birth rate were to be low , there would be insufficient children for these teachers to teach ( unless pupil/teacher ratios were to be changed ) . |
| 6 | Sixty-five per cent of the economy will remain in state hands in six years ' time and workers will no longer elect managers . |
| 7 | If we do the same tests in 10 years ' time , we almost certainly will not get the same set of results . ’ |