Example sentences of "ten [noun pl] ' time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe he would n't be bringing the certificate today , but then again in ten minutes ' time Sampson could be on his way down to the police station with an open envelope . |
| 2 | Such was the message Lewis passed on , himself saying nothing for the moment of his own extraordinarily exciting find , but agreeing to pick up Morse in about ten minutes ' time , after briefly reporting in to St Aldate 's . |
| 3 | In ten years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , they may still remember us both . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't want to be walking around in ten years ' time with people shouting ‘ Loadsamoney ’ at me ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't want to be walking around in ten years ' time with people shouting ‘ Loadsamoney ’ at me ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't want to be walking down the street in ten years ' time with people shouting ‘ Loasdamoney ’ at me , ’ he says . |
| 9 | Who will be in charge of Germany in ten years ' time ? |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | They looked about ten , with long hair , both so brown and handsome I could have hugged them ; if I were a woman I would have made a date with them for ten years ' time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | With DOUBLE PAYOUT , however , he enjoys a very reasonable level of cover and the pleasing prospect of a tax-free windfall in just ten years ' time . |
| 14 | In ten years ' time you can choose to do the following : |
| 15 | How would you like to see yourself in ten years ' time ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | In ten years ' time you 'll know why you were right to send off this coupon . |
| 21 | ( 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 . ’ ) |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In ten years ' time the English language will not be worth speaking . " |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I , I would , I would be very surprised if the communists understood how deterministic idea of erm some sort of progression , I think you ca n't really say in about ten years ' time we 're gon na be here |
| 28 | If this is what they need now , this is what you give them , er , on the understanding that perhaps they only have it for fifteen or ten years , but in fifteen or ten years ' time , they might well be able to afford to extend it and pay more . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Now that 's , that 's perfectly valid but if the business actually improves , it takes off , you could have this advantage to , to do it over a shorter period of time , maybe in ten years ' time when business is really |