Example sentences of "very short [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ricotta has a very short life and should be bought and used daily . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | However , a country could have a moderately high average level , while some sections of society still had very short life expectancy . |
| 4 | Pottery has a limited life , determined by the function of the vessels , and thus store jars kept secure in a pantry may remain intact for several generations , while cooking pots , if in constant use , have a very short life . |
| 5 | A lot of current affairs material has a very short life and if you are receiving programmes from another country you will also have the problem of sifting out items which assume detailed knowledge of local events and personalities because they wo n't mean much to your students . |
| 6 | The best starting point for understanding time and its measurement will be the children 's own experience and the landmarks in their own very short life such as birthdays , going to school , the birth of brothers and sisters , etc . |
| 7 | If the angle is too steep , and you arrive too close , it will mean having a very short base leg and no time for adjustments by moving in or out and using the airbrakes . |
| 8 | At church the Vicar , Mr Nicolson , preached only a very short sermon . |
| 9 | SAXON : ‘ The Best Of Saxon ’ ( EMI ) no doubt very short compilation of the best from these former contemporaries of Iron Maiden and Del Leppard back in the days of the late '70s New Wave of British Heavy Metal — out now |
| 10 | The public has a very short memory . |
| 11 | So er he 's got a very short memory . |
| 12 | And if you 're going to try and look inside one of these things then you 're going to have to use very high energy particles , which in quantum physics means something that is very short wavelength that you can actually look inside , and when you look inside these things by , say , scattering electrons from them , very high energy electrons , it appears that inside a proton and inside a neutron is mainly again just free space , and there are other point like objects inside these particles , and these objects are know as quarks . |
| 13 | After Munich in a very short year we were at war , and by all accounts it was a very different manner of acceptance of war than we are told of the 1914 war . |
| 14 | W+ , W , and Q would acquire large masses , making the forces they carry have a very short range . |
| 15 | ( Owing to the very short range of the aircraft of the period , it was not an uncommon experience to land on one 's base actually under enemy shell-fire . ) |
| 16 | It was a very short trip of ten minutes and took us from Wolton to Haven Street and back . |
| 17 | Because we are riding across them we are experiencing the seasons in very short order . |
| 18 | Whether he did or did not , he was back in very short order saying that the crew had decided to go back to their old squadron , and I cleared him to return to his squadron that same afternoon . |
| 19 | For example whatever the nature of the case be it acute or chronic I would expect to see some signs of improvement indicating a curative response within a very short while . |
| 20 | She should maybe have heeded the lyrics of ‘ On Ilkley Moor Baht'at ’ , which I discovered , only a very short while ago , I admit , is all about recycling . |
| 21 | Ladies and gentlemen , we just before we get on with the second part of the meeting when erm , meeting erm I think I ought to tell you that erm one of our committee members died a very short while back . |
| 22 | I was only here for a very short while , during which time I saw . |
| 23 | Even when excavations are featured in newspaper articles and television programmes , archaeological sites are rarely in the public eye for more than a very short while . |
| 24 | After all , it was a masque , and I wanted , or after a very short while began to want , to play my part . |
| 25 | His hands were careful and restrained , his mouth tender , and although only a very short while later , Cassie was to realize just how much self-control he had exerted at that moment of their first real physical contact , for those few minutes , she knew only that she was not afraid of him , nor even suspected that there was any need to be . |
| 26 | I went for a very short while to the Royal Academy of Arts for a leaving party being given for Mrs William Kerr , who firstly as Griselda Hamilton-Baillie then as Griselda Kerr , has worked so hard on the public relations staff of the Royal Academy , since 1972 . |
| 27 | But then , within a very short while , fantasy reasserted itself and we find Columbus and his fellow travellers telling stories about other islands , as yet unvisited , inhabited by tailed men , cannibals , Amazons . |
| 28 | He was back in a very short while and to her embarrassment he knelt and bathed her feet carefully , putting a plaster on a slight cut after he had dried them . |
| 29 | But of course if we 're going to do that we need somewhere to start and where we 're going to start is that I 'm going to ask you to each to make a presentation , a very short presentation . |
| 30 | 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 . |