Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ' time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has an 18-year-old son , who plans to go to university in a few months ' time and the thought of life on her own fills her with anxiety . |
| 2 | What in the world would the company be like in a few years ' time if such people were in the driving seat ? |
| 3 | ‘ Clive Griffiths , the Welsh coach , may persuade me to play against France in a few weeks ' time but I have made up my mind to call it a day , ’ he said last night . |
| 4 | ‘ You see , Brownies , this hall is being pulled down in a few weeks ' time and new houses put up in its place , and there just does n't seem to be anywhere else for us to meet . |
| 5 | Not only that , but on hatching , the young cuckoo throws out the host species ' own eggs or young so that it has no competition for the foster parents ' time and attention . |
| 6 | So again there 's some restatement , so just to clarify things we 're looking at primarily life insurance for yourself and your wife savings plan for your daughter PHI say in six months ' time and pension planning is the , the least of your , your main concerns today , would that be the case yeah I guess so . |
| 7 | Sixty-five per cent of the economy will remain in state hands in six years ' time and workers will no longer elect managers . |
| 8 | In 10 years ' time as mainframes become more powerful , he reckons , this figure is more likely to be 500 . |
| 9 | Work out how many woodlice you will have in 10 years ' time if they continue to multiply at this rate . |
| 10 | My husband who earns good money , gets a pension in 10 years ' time and he says we 'll return then . |
| 11 | The winner will be announced in six weeks ' time and both the winning plumber and the nominator will receive holidays to Majorca . |
| 12 | ‘ Surely this can not be justified as an effective use of civil servants ' time or public money . ’ |
| 13 | If it picks an insider or a retiree , then we will all be back to writing the company 's obituary in three months ' time so it has to be an outsider , and one name canvassed that should be crossed off the list at once is that of ‘ Neutron ’ Jack Welch , boss of General Electric Co — not because he does n't have the capability but because he does not have a background in the computer industry . |
| 14 | But King He can expect to be freed in three years ' time but Don King is convinced the former champion 's conviction will be overturned at a forthcoming appeal . |
| 15 | ‘ This may rise to about 20 in three years ' time if we do well . |
| 16 | But we can not estimate so reliably how many of these will seek university places in 17 or 18 years ' time since this will be affected so much by changeable social and economic factors . |
| 17 | The hon. Gentleman is trying to guess what the market price will be in X years ' time and what proportion of the market will be accounted for by coal . |
| 18 | The principal reason is that the Government will be defeated in four or five months ' time and be replaced by a Labour Government who will take the Bill off the statute book as soon as they come to power . |
| 19 | It would be surprising if benchmarking attracts as much media attention in five years ' time as it does now . |
| 20 | I could imagine institutions , for example , being told to be in a different position perhaps in five years ' time or ten years ' time , and being able to do this by a variety of means , working towards it , whereas , it seems to me it 's a very much harder problem , although it 's , it 's understandable as I said in the , in the present circumstances , to actually be able to take on this properly and do a proper job of change in a time scale of perhaps one year or maybe even less than that in some cases . |
| 21 | The debentures have a face value of £1.5 million , an annual interest rate of 10 per cent , mature in five years ' time and are currently selling at their face value . |
| 22 | erm There are indications that in perhaps twenty years ' time that there might be some novel applications of lasers . |
| 23 | Now , what the potential migrant will do , Harrison Todaro assumed , was to say , right what they 'll do is that they 'll , these migrants will mentally calculate the present value of receiving W A throughout their lifetime , right , and they 'll discount erm those wages by appropriate discount rate , reflecting the fact that a hundred pounds today is worth a lot more than a hundred pounds twenty years ' time or thirty years ' time . |
| 24 | I hope that he and his fellow enthusiasts of today will derive as much pleasure from looking back in 50 or 60 years ' time as I do from my battered old album . |
| 25 | and then if that 's okay with you I 'll come back in about two weeks ' time and |
| 26 | Ag again with the , the recommendations I think you , you , you went on to say can I , can I go forward in , in getting the recommendations erm without actually explaining what you were doing , you just came back and said so I 'll go ahead and get the recommendations and come back and see you in two weeks ' time and like what recommendation ? |
| 27 | So he said erm but we ha being refurbished in four weeks ' time and we 've got to sell everything in the shop |
| 28 | What will its price be in four weeks ' time if interest rates remain unchanged ? |
| 29 | But councillors are urging officials to get on with spending because the authority could go out of business in two years ' time if local government is reorganised . |
| 30 | But I usually arrange with a client over what 's seen in two years ' time or one year 's time , whatever . |