Example sentences of "in [num] years ' time [pron] " 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 | 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 ? |
| 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 | " The greens as yet are slow but in two years ' time they will be difficult but a very good test of touch and eye . |
| 16 | In two years ' time I would be doing |
| 17 | In two years ' time it 's planned it 'll be completely car-free . |