Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adv] short " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stranger was neither short nor tall , and very thin , with a figure of the ‘ Twenties , slightly spidery , ineluctably elegant . |
| 2 | But assisting her investigations into a perfectly natural death as if it were murder was little short of lunacy . |
| 3 | Whether he stood or sat his form was full of dignity ; the good proportion and grace of his body prevented the observer from noticing that his neck was rather short and his person rather too fleshy . |
| 4 | Its time of usefulness was relatively short , though it lasted as a fortress until 1621 , when some local Protestants used it as their strong point in an attempted uprising against the new , official Catholicism of the region . |
| 5 | The programme was conspicuously short on detail , although Abel Aganbegyan , its principal author , told deputies on Oct. 18 that this allowed differences between the republics ' approaches to reform to be accommodated . |
| 6 | ‘ The undergrowth was quite short in those days . ’ |
| 7 | Although it is appreciated that the timescale for submission was fairly short , this was necessary in order to sequence all the other steps in the validation process . |
| 8 | But at the back the bodice was slit from collar to midriff and the skirt was daringly short . |
| 9 | And her skirt was too short . |
| 10 | AEA 's business in the water sector was just short of £1 million last year . |
| 11 | Besides which , the list of figures qualified for the job was very short . |
| 12 | This could take up to three weeks , though occasionally the period was as short as one week . |
| 13 | The economic results of the reforms are very difficult to judge because the period was too short for any economic stability to be achieved . |
| 14 | There had been disagreements over the timetable : France thought the transitional period was too short , while others wanted even faster movement . |
| 15 | The layout of the aircraft was unusual in that the fuselage was set well back on the wing , that his the nose was very short in relation to the length of the rear fuselage . |
| 16 | The bands of volunteers rallied willingly at Edith 's command , and though her residency was comparatively short , her influence was great . |
| 17 | With few exceptions , villages were tiny , shrinking communities with the irreducible minimum of the poorest people : at Hawling , where the population was well short of a hundred , only three of the twenty different men recorded in the combined muster and subsidy were assessed at less than £2 , and none out of eleven at tiny Batsford . |
| 18 | In the early days , the crop was fairly short , then the number one crop came into fashion , giving skins the nearly bald look . |
| 19 | As a result the French navy was normally short of seamen throughout the century . |
| 20 | The presentation was too short , and rather shallow . |
| 21 | To achieve that , Fernandez changed her tactics , and the transformation was little short of astonishing as she served and volleyed her way to victory . |
| 22 | Thus , if the original problem was that the monetary sector as a whole was critically short of base money , then the attempt by individual banks to improve their own position by raising interest rates will be self-defeating . |
| 23 | The flight was quite short . |
| 24 | Tendulkar , already dropped by Steve Waugh ( who had earlier ‘ caught ’ him off a no-ball ) , had a let-off when Moody 's throw from a square leg hit the stumps : the TV replay showed the teenager was still short of his ground when the wicket was broken . |
| 25 | Alpine pastures may look very pretty , but the grazing and growing season was agonisingly short , and profitability was low . |
| 26 | Lydia said life was too short to mess about making dyes from heather . |
| 27 | Maybe life was too short to pass up the chance to experience the kind of volcanic passion she 'd felt with Roman last night … |
| 28 | When human life was so short and had been so cheap , what was there but the living , the greed of the moment ? |
| 29 | The single was too short , too light and too throwaway . |
| 30 | It was at the time of the Bulganin-Khruschev circus and my leave was very short — not long enough to clear up my mother 's affairs as I wished to do . |