Example sentences of "[prep] a very short " in BNC.
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| 1 | He died after a very short and sudden illness in June 1986 . |
| 2 | There was an inevitable lack of interest when rabbit stocks fell after myxomatosis , and after a very short time there was a corresponding fall in the number of ferrets retained for sporting purposes . |
| 3 | After a very short time , he stopped , and laid the bowl down . |
| 4 | I am sure that if I had been his secretary for a fortnight I should have wanted to poison him , not marry him … yes , I should have run round to the chemist 's for threepennyworth of poison after a very short time . |
| 5 | If you continue to knit , you will end up with dropped stitches and probably jam the carriage after a very short time . |
| 6 | After all , it was a masque , and I wanted , or after a very short while began to want , to play my part . |
| 7 | She turned abruptly into the fitting-room and after a very short time reappeared , looking as perfect as if she had spent hours dressing instead of minutes . |
| 8 | Pros : Proves indispensable after a very short time — Power Toolbox is especially nice . |
| 9 | Venous effluents collected during infusion of bile , however , did significantly ( p<0.01 ) inhibit ileal motility after a very short latency ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 10 | Most " events " are of a very short duration — in the case of a banquet a matter of a few hours — but some can last longer — in the case of certain sporting events , conferences or exhibitions several days , or even one or two weeks . |
| 11 | In Video Plan 6 we have an example of very intensive treatment of a very short sequence ( 26 seconds ) where the video is repeatedly returned to as a stimulus to another activity . |
| 12 | But in what seemed like a very short period my mother died after a long illness . |
| 13 | But only for a very short time . ’ |
| 14 | From a therapeutic aspect , penicillin was marvellous because it cured many dangerous bacterial infections , but it was tiresome because it was inactive by mouth ( it was destroyed by the acidity of the stomach contents ) , it acted for a very short time ( it was rapidly excreted by the kidneys ) and so was of little value unless given by injection at intervals of not longer than 3 hours , and because , after a time , the normal processes of evolution led to the appearance of resistant strains of the microbes which had previously been sensitive to penicillin . |
| 15 | Anyhow , it had been going for a very short time , not very satisfactory , because none of us really were very successful with our machine , and then a … messenger came in to say that a [ radio ] taxi driver had come into No. 10 to say he 's heard everything going on in his taxi in Whitehall . |
| 16 | Mrs Vial was given a grant of ten guineas to purchase mourning dress , and was made , for a very short time only , a grant of 60 guineas per annum . |
| 17 | In these tests , two lines of obviously different lengths are exhibited for a very short period of time , and the subject has to say whether the right or the left line was the longer . |
| 18 | They would burn like arc lamps for a very short duration . |
| 19 | A person who has been thinking intensely , for example , even for a very short time will leave these thoughts in the vapour . |
| 20 | Mr Jonathon Seeley , for Hilton , said his client was involved in drug distribution for a very short period and bitterly regretted his behaviour . |
| 21 | HIV is a very weak virus and can only survive for a very short time when it is exposed to air outside the human body . |
| 22 | I was only here for a very short while , during which time I saw . |
| 23 | The messenger of the Queen 's Chamber , who summoned Hawarde , got £1.6s. 8d. for a very short journey — apparently being paid at 4d. a mile — and a retainer of 6s. 8d . |
| 24 | But frankly it 's not likely to irritate your skin anyway because er you are n't industrial users of this you would only ever touch these chemicals for a very short time so the any possible side effects they might er have on you will be greatly diminished by the fact that you did n't use them very much . |
| 25 | First , the population of contract computer staff is much smaller than that of agency secretarial/office workers and , insofar as there are fewer people working on this basis for a very short term or occasional basis , has a much higher stability of membership . |
| 26 | I think tranquillizers can be useful as well for a very short time limited period . |
| 27 | If the oil film breaks down momentarily for a very short period of time that little bit of carbon that four percent carbon in the cast iron will actually stop the aluminium sticking to the cylinder . |
| 28 | When she saw the post of maid in general to Esther Ward advertised , she used all her powers of persuasion to convince Tilly that it would only be for a very short time : ‘ Just so I know how he is … how my daughter Beth is faring . ’ |
| 29 | But only for a very short time . ’ |
| 30 | They saw the animal only for a very short time . ’ |