Example sentences of "in [num] [noun pl] ' time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in fifty years ' time we could be saying well did Jane pick the right one ? |
| 2 | ‘ In three years ' time we might have still been in very good shape but we must take steps to protect the UK as a manufacturing base . ’ |
| 3 | In three years ' time it is likely that everything in the country , including rugby ticket prices , will have escalated by 45 per cent . |
| 4 | In three years ' time I would be doing |
| 5 | IBM has invested so much in the development of , and so much more in the marketing of , OS/2 2.0 that it has to plough on with it even if in 18 months ' time it becomes clear that it is becoming at best a respectable also-ran in the desktop stakes . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In ten years ' time you can choose to do the following : |
| 9 | In ten years ' time you 'll know why you were right to send off this coupon . |
| 10 | But' — and he laughed — ‘ do n't forget that in five years ' time you will have changed again . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | In twenty years ' time they will remember their history teacher : his mannerisms , his irony and self-deprecating asides , his friendly interest in each of them . |
| 13 | In 40 years ' time they 'll say ‘ It was the first one out after the 400th Birthday Issue ’ . |
| 14 | To achieve this in four years ' time I would be doing |
| 15 | In two weeks ' time it would be one year since he had first come to Iraq . |
| 16 | " The greens as yet are slow but in two years ' time they will be difficult but a very good test of touch and eye . |
| 17 | In two years ' time I would be doing |
| 18 | In two years ' time it 's planned it 'll be completely car-free . |
| 19 | In two days ' time we reached Pakoku where many of the Anglo-Burmans begged me to disembark and try to walk out of Burma with them , but Rachel was still very sick and I said I would go on to Mandalay and hope to find a doctor there . |