Example sentences of "[prep] the [adv] short [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Journeys were usually made on the Friday , except for the relatively short trip to Birmingham , made on Saturday morning . |
| 2 | The following account summarizes the factual information I obtained about the prison , as well as the general impressions I gained during the necessarily short time I was able to spend inside it . |
| 3 | During the relatively short treatment , the therapist helped the patient to begin discussing her feelings with her family . |
| 4 | His beatification aroused criticism from some Catholics not only because of the relatively short time that had elapsed since his death , but also because of what they claimed was the right-wing content of his views . |
| 5 | We can see from their coins that the portraits of Roman emperors of the third century AD were individualised , but the identification of their three-dimensional portraits is still difficult because not many survive ( a result in part , at least , of the very short life expectancy of an emperor during this troubled period ) . |
| 6 | As indeed is the stubby gear shift with the ultra short throw . |
| 7 | The system is available for immediate application , within the very short time needed to produce really effective results . |
| 8 | Sergeant Dixon ( stripes newly stitched ) was also enjoying himself , although initially he had serious doubts about whether he — or anyone else , for that matter — could successfully handle his assignment in the ridiculously short period of the three or four hours which Morse had asserted as ‘ ample ’ . |
| 9 | He was esteemed to excel in the art of mining , and at his own expense built the beautiful church which was completed in the amazingly short space of seven months . |
| 10 | After a disastrous fire the new church was begun by Justinian in 532 and was built in the incredibly short time of six years , though the interior decoration was completed after this . |
| 11 | The blowhole itself is the hinged flap of a watertight valve , and through it the dolphin can empty and refill its lungs in the unbelievably short time of one-fifth of a second . |
| 12 | There is no evidence that the Ismaili Assassins ever made contact with the Crusaders in the relatively short history of the sect . |
| 13 | The groundmass crystals form when the lava cools on reaching the surface , so the individual crystals are tiny , simply because they do n't have the time to grow any larger in the relatively short period that the flow takes to cool . |
| 14 | Although it is true that this philosophy was dominant only in the relatively short period from the turn of the century until World War I , it subsequently left its imprint upon the labour movement and its appeal has not entirely been extinguished . |
| 15 | In the relatively short period of time prior to the Industrial Revolution the function of the prison can be seen as related directly to the needs of the economy , in that labour was forced to work on specific projects to overcome labour shortages . |
| 16 | Leaving aside the numerous examples of the rise and fall of parties over the past century , there are many instances of change even in the relatively short period of time since the end of the Second World War . |
| 17 | Any thoughtful linguist must wonder from time to time if such a legacy can have been shaken off completely in the relatively short time during which scientific linguistics has existed . |
| 18 | There are numerous demands on the time of a Fund Manager and we must make the maximum impact in the relatively short time available . |
| 19 | In the very short space of ten seasons Mains played a hundred games for Otago and had begun a steady succession of matches in All Black trials . |
| 20 | In the very short space of time that we have available this afternoon there are three subjects that I need simply to bring to the attention of Synod . |
| 21 | Everywhere there were shortages and , with the post-First World War period much in mind , there was a fear of inflation in the very short run , followed by deflation in the medium term . |
| 22 | Such room for manoeuvre as existed in choosing between these two evils was only present in the very short run . |
| 23 | This implies that a trade-off between unemployment and inflation may exist only in the very short term . |
| 24 | While they can have their uses in the very short term or as a stop-gap measure , in reality they would be needed in very large numbers in any tank containing large cichlids . |
| 25 | All this adds up to the likelihood that the Government can not sort out the economy in the very short term and certainly can not do so this side of the general election ; they can not generate the feeling of happiness and cheerfulness about the economy which parties traditionally rely upon to win general elections . |
| 26 | But as countries move into much needed economic reform programmes we know that children may be the losers in the very short term and that 's why in the O D A we are concerned with helping governments develop social policies which provide adequate safety net provision for children during this process of adjustment . |
| 27 | The theatre was completed in the very short time of two years . |
| 28 | In the preceding analysis the rational expectations criteria were introduced piecemeal within a context which assumed market clearing , at least in the fairly short run . |
| 29 | Our own surveys confirm a strong switch towards optimism between our Mid-Term Wave in 1986 and our Pre-Campaign Wave in March 1987 , but over the relatively short period from our Pre-Campaign Wave to the end of the campaign overall trends in economic perceptions were small . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , they counter that the physical environment should not be considered a constant , even over the relatively short period of agricultural settlement in Great Britain , in part because of climatic change and its consequences , in part because of changes wrought by land use practices , and in part because of changed perceptions of the environment ; see also Prince ( 1971 ) , and Blaikie and Brookfield ( 1987 ) . |