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in the fullness of time

  1. Within the appropriate or destined time, as in We'll know if it's a boy or a girl in the fullness of time. This expression employs fullness in the sense of “a complete or ample measure or degree.” [Early 1600s]



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How Guehi feels about it all may come up in the fullness of time, but you can imagine it has been difficult to process.

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Los Angeles lies nestled within a vast basin stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the San Gabriel and Santa Monica mountain ranges on the north and northwest, some 3½ million acres of mostly undeveloped territory capable, in the fullness of time, of supporting a population of more than 13 million.

Some obvious, others that reveal themselves in the fullness of time.

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"I'm sure in the fullness of time we'll bring forward a proposal that's suitable," he said.

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That is the risk - that in the fullness of time this comes to be seen as a speech long on diagnosis but short on prescription.

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