Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a short [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lonsdale 's history of women poets through the century allows them to be understood against developments in the poetry written by men whose dominance of fashion was challenged for only a short time toward the end of the period . |
| 2 | Why does the snow settle for only a short time on the north west coast ? |
| 3 | Full employment , competition between employers for labour and high levels of labour turnover might mean that many people are working for only a short time in any particular job . |
| 4 | The specialized frugivores are , in general , foraging for only a short period of the day — in the cases of manikins and cotingas , for only some 10% of the daylight hours . |
| 5 | A single kiln , for instance , probably implies a potter 's presence for only a short period in the life of a settlement some may even have been itinerant or at best semi-residential , moving on once local demand had been satisfied . |
| 6 | Strange beds have rarely agreed with me , and after only a short spell of somewhat troubled slumber , I awoke an hour or so ago . |
| 7 | If you make sure the butt points at the target in the initial stages , and the tip follows through in a straight line , you will acquire both distance and accuracy after only a short period of practice . |
| 8 | In spite of only a short period of minority government the Labour Party in the 1920s had also developed some ambitious long-term policies . |
| 9 | Emphasis was on development , jobs and the economy , with only a short chapter at the end on the environment . |
| 10 | Once you have dace feeding , you usually find that bites come from mainly a short section of the swim . |
| 11 | Speakers make use of a very sharply limited inventory of phonological contrasts , and realizations of any given unit are likely to crop up quite frequently in even a short piece of text . |
| 12 | Once dissolved , there is no Parliament until the next one meets ; it is yet another endearingly eccentric feature of the constitution of this cradle of democracy that its law provides that , at least once in every five years , it shall undergo at least a short spell of autocracy . |
| 13 | Allow to set for at least a short while before serving garnished with lime wedges . |
| 14 | Each unit , once landed , had therefore to make its own decisions undirected by the higher command , with the result that one company , though separated by only a short distance from the next , could be unaware of what their comrades were attempting . |