Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] short " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our branch has just short of 100 members all of whom received 2 books of lottery tickets to sell by the end of July . |
| 2 | But the Glory stopped well short of that . |
| 3 | If you use a pattern such as a basic 1x1 pattern ( that 's one hole punched , one hole blank , all across the card and alternating on the next row ) the resulting fabric has very short floats , not floats at all really ( swatch 6 ) . |
| 4 | Here she is , in the year of the 40th anniversary of her coronation , and yet her subjects seem singularly short of the jubilee spirit . |
| 5 | Uneven allocation will thus lead to some subjects having relatively short notation at the expense of others with relatively long notation . |
| 6 | His eighth minute back-pass fell fatally short of the courageous Stephen Pears in the Middlesbrough goal , but it still took an exceptional finish from Rosenthal to find the net from an awkward angle . |
| 7 | This assumption of political power as well as military command represented little short of a coup by Franco and a group of military and civilian supporters , mostly of monarchist sympathies ; within days Franco had quietly promoted himself to ‘ Head of State ’ , a title he was to retain until his death 39 years later . |
| 8 | For that year the comparable figure fell just short of half a million at 498,576 . |
| 9 | By achieving availability once again in the Mediterranean , Iraq hoped to be able to raise its output to 2 million b/d for 1986 , though this figure fell well short of its potential , widely estimated at nearer 4 million b/d . |
| 10 | In certain cases the law imposes very short time limits within which you must act . |
| 11 | Some bold people had contrived to take away so much stuff that later , when clothing became very short , they were able to conduct a very lucrative business on the black market . |
| 12 | Her hands , with the nails cut very short , were ringless and her only ornament was a necklace of large wooden beads strung on a silver chain . |
| 13 | If the horse is worked , or the feet wear too short , the horse may have to be shod about every six weeks . |
| 14 | You can see from the results that my 486SX machine falls far short of the results achieved by the standard 386DX . |
| 15 | Jessop , however , has argued that while there are important insights to be gleaned from this approach , the instrumental reappraisal falls somewhat short of giving an adequate theoretical account of the state in capitalism . |
| 16 | Despite these dramatic improvements , not surprisingly Mrs Gould 's work falls well short of the plates by Lear . |
| 17 | Among the randomised trials of exercise based rehabilitation after myocardial infarction performed in the 1970s and 80s only one reported a significant reduction in cardiac mortality , but some of these trials offered only short term follow up while others were small and vulnerable to type II statistical error . |
| 18 | So , while England fall well short of support from six countries , India , Pakistan and Sri Lanka have two ready-made allies and need just one more . |
| 19 | Again , many European trusts have only short performance records . |
| 20 | They decided to don boxing gloves and fight in a square ring , like professional boxers , so that they could employ full-power kicks and punches against one another , instead of having to let their attacks fall just short of a designated target area . |
| 21 | House officers also need to know what to do if their job falls far short of the recommended standards . |
| 22 | Knights naturally took precedence as the leading members of the class , and there is no difficulty about demonstrating that they were also the richest despite the existence of a good many whose incomes fell far short of £200 . |
| 23 | The orchestra responded in kind , bursting into a song at one point , although their vocal abilities fell far short of their instrumental ones . |
| 24 | The armholes looked too short , the sleeves did n't look as if they would fit and the bust size was nowhere near the size that was required . |
| 25 | By the time Coleman died it was said that the number of veterinary surgeons practising in the three kingdoms fell little short of 1,000 . |
| 26 | Although the balls fell harmlessly short , the enemy pressed back . |
| 27 | The days become very short indeed . |
| 28 | The car slid quietly between the cradled yachts to stop just short of Wavebreaker 's pier . |
| 29 | Lydia was clad in an outfit which like many very beautiful things stopped just short of being ridiculous , hovering on the brink of parody . |
| 30 | The 25,572 crowd at Ayresome Park on Wednesday night fell just short of capacity when Manchester returned around 400 tickets . |