Example sentences of "in five [noun] ' time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been intending to go in five minutes ' time , when she had drunk her cup of weak tea . |
| 2 | ‘ Your birthday 's in five days ' time . ’ |
| 3 | This is why they ask you things like , on interviews , and they ask you , where do you see yourself in five years ' time , and I used to say , I do n't even see meself where I 'm going to be in five days ' time , never mind five , just give us the bloody job . |
| 4 | He had been Head of Modern Languages since 1920 , and was due to retire in five months ' time . |
| 5 | But' — and he laughed — ‘ do n't forget that in five years ' time you will have changed again . ’ |
| 6 | He was due to oversee Italy 's entry into the European single market next year and to the single currency in five years ' time . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Wondered what woman , if any , I should be thinking about in five years ' time . ’ |
| 9 | And the share of military expenditure devoted to purchases of new equipment will grow from 23 per cent last year to 39 per cent in five years ' time . |
| 10 | If he managed economically he hoped that in five years ' time , if the public continued to buy what he wrote , he would retrieve more than he lost . |
| 11 | It would be surprising if benchmarking attracts as much media attention in five years ' time as it does now . |
| 12 | Mr Damant predicts that in five years ' time , if the ASB pursues unfudgeability rather than ‘ correct accounting principles ’ , it will be faced with dissatisfaction because accounts will not show a true and fair view . |
| 13 | It 's a fairly safe bet that the ASB will be heavily criticised in five years ' time in any case ; that 's just a fact of life that standard-setters in the UK have to accept . |
| 14 | WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN FIVE YEARS ' TIME ? |
| 15 | Close your eyes and imagine yourself somewhere in five years ' time . |
| 16 | If you can imagine your goal , where you want to be in five years ' time , then you are already part of the way there . |
| 17 | If you were to achieve your goal in five years ' time , what would you have to be doing in four years ' time to get there ? |
| 18 | My goal in five years ' time would be |
| 19 | In five years ' time , if the value has fallen below what was invested , you will receive a cheque refunding the difference . |
| 20 | WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN FIVE YEARS ' TIME ? : |
| 21 | This is the kind of record that people will talk about in five years ' time . |
| 22 | The table shows the percentage of respondents that predicted dominance in five years ' time for each of seven operating systems listed in the table . |
| 23 | She should look after herself , as well , and he would see her in five years ' time . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | How many SSDs will be able to say the same in five years ' time ? |
| 26 | What will happen to me , how I 'll develop , what I 'll be in five years ' time , in ten , in thirty . |
| 27 | The 40 staff execute 3,500 trades a day on average , and Vine-Lott has set himself a target of more than doubling that in five years ' time , including a considerable proportion on behalf of other institutions , such as the Halifax Building Society , for whom it is already doing work , as well as other brokers and banks . |
| 28 | They can put figures down er you know writing things off erm whatsit twenty percent per year for a machine right in five years ' time that machine is scrap . |
| 29 | It may be considered to be a vital British interest that we are not on the outside of the single currency in five years ' time . |
| 30 | We are interested in tools for the classroom in five years ' time , rather than those which can be run now . |