Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] a time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean that when we divorce after as short a time as possible you 'll give me a lump sum ? ’ she enquired , her voice frigid . |
| 2 | I decided that I would have to get to the Butcher 's office first or at least early on in the queue so that I would be barefoot for as short a time as possible . |
| 3 | If you do give it , give it for as short a time as you can . |
| 4 | It is obviously better if trees can be out of the ground for as short a time as possible and it is much less expensive to buy bare root transplants . |
| 5 | The children of the Indians are saved , to be sold or given away as servants , or rather slaves for as long a time as the owners can make them believe themselves slaves . |
| 6 | If the interval during which he kept his eyes closed was very short , say one second , he could maintain that we could not have exchanged our places in so short a time and invoke the laws of physics in support of his view . |
| 7 | Your aim , though , is not simply to lose as much weight as you can in as short a time as possible . |
| 8 | So dead bodies are hygienically whisked away by undertakers within a very short ti me of the person dying , funerals are conducted in twenty minutes at a busy crematorium with a bizarre queue of other funerals waiting in an approach way , and grieving people are expected to be back at their employment in as short a time as possible . |
| 9 | in the aquarium we are interested in killing as many free swimming disease organisms in as short a time as possible , whereas in the pond it is unicellular algae that is targeted ( the cause of green water ) . |
| 10 | If your plan is to move ahead quickly and gain promotion in as short a time as possible , you would probably fare best in an area where the shortage of suitably qualified staff is most acute . |
| 11 | William normally ate as if food were some sort of obstacle between him and the next vital task , an obstacle which had to be demolished in as short a time as possible . |
| 12 | The researchers were therefore able to show small changes attributable to natural selection in as short a time as two months , a truly remarkable discovery . |
| 13 | A spokesman said that the poachers were " redoubling their efforts to kill as many horned rhino in as short a time as possible " . |