Example sentences of "in a few years ' time " in BNC.

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1 So in a few years ' time mobile phones will be brought to the masses .
2 But I read in an article this morning ( 'Students set to pay full fees ' , 29 September ) that if I were applying in a few years ' time , I would have to ask my parents to pay the full cost of my tuition .
3 Production of the Japanese industry 's two principal profit earners — the F-15J fighter and the P-3C anti-submarine aircraft , both built under licence from the United States — will peter out in a few years ' time .
4 What in the world would the company be like in a few years ' time if such people were in the driving seat ?
5 Little did they guess that in a few years ' time they would be telling their friends and relatives about the superstar who used to live next door in the suburbs .
6 The dilemma of whether to improve ( or not ) an old building which may not be needed in a few years ' time can last for decades .
7 It is quite impossible to believe that he will fade from the scene on formal retirement in a few years ' time .
8 Already in Britain there are plans for putting into communication the computer-based personal information systems of DHSS , the Driving and Vehicle Licensing Centre , the Police National Computer and the Inland Revenue ; and the embossed plastic cards with unique machine-readable numerical identifiers which are now issued automatically to all school-leavers to mark their entry into the National Insurance scheme will in a few years ' time be , in effect , national identity cards .
9 Without pilots gaining experience at the lowest level , we will be shaping up for another chronic pilots shortage in a few years ' time .
10 In a few years ' time , it may no longer be meaningful to do so , though it 's a safe bet that the spreadsheet will always be with us as a presentation style .
11 However , what may look like a good deal now , as the UK emerges from its adjustment period of higher interest rates and recession , could look rather different in a few years ' time .
12 Let them run down just so much every year , remember your low outgoings , and in a few years ' time have them towed away for their break-up value . "
13 The result was pale and sickly , stress lines showing how much she would look like her mother in a few years ' time .
14 forbidding the use of capillary fittings containing lead-based solder on pipes supplying drinking water ( see Chapter 2 ) n changing the size of flushing cisterns used with WCs ( to come into effect in a few years ' time — see Chapter 8 )
15 The motion called on the chamber to reconsider the issue in a few years ' time .
16 The results come hard on the heels of a forecast by the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency , who says he is confident that a series of factors will lead to a ‘ relaunch ’ of nuclear power in a few years ' time .
17 As with the merger in 1977 between the then Institute of Bankers and the Savings Banks Institute , the latest partnership will in a few years ' time look entirely natural .
18 How can we allow the commercial hunting of whales when they could be starved of food because of ozone depletion in a few years ' time ? "
19 The company 's chief executive , Dr David Horrobin , said that employment could be expected to increase if progress continues and the products are licensed by the Government for clinical use in a few years ' time .
20 In a few years ' time hopefully , we might have a different situation where we have people like Helmut Cole and the right wing in France trying to block things that er , a British Labour government wants to do .
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