Example sentences of "[num] years ' time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sixty-five per cent of the economy will remain in state hands in six years ' time and workers will no longer elect managers . |
| 2 | In 10 years ' time as mainframes become more powerful , he reckons , this figure is more likely to be 500 . |
| 3 | Work out how many woodlice you will have in 10 years ' time if they continue to multiply at this rate . |
| 4 | My husband who earns good money , gets a pension in 10 years ' time and he says we 'll return then . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ This may rise to about 20 in three years ' time if we do well . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It would be surprising if benchmarking attracts as much media attention in five years ' time as it does now . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | erm There are indications that in perhaps twenty years ' time that there might be some novel applications of lasers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But I usually arrange with a client over what 's seen in two years ' time or one year 's time , whatever . |