Example sentences of "short a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wexford wondered how long since anyone had made so many damaging admissions in this office in so short a space of time . |
| 2 | Too much horror in too short a space of time . |
| 3 | Even so it is strange that Veblen should have failed to recognise the magnitude of what the fierce emulation of railroad promoters , industrialists and bankers in fact managed to achieve in North America during so short a space of time . |
| 4 | Mr Kozyrev cut short a trip to Finland , returning to Moscow to read the president 's address to the commonwealth . |
| 5 | On the technical side , arguments include the ethics of analysing umpires ' decisions , the pros and cons of double-ended coverage and the problems of cutting short a broadcast at a crucial stage in order to accommodate a news bulletin or racing from Ascot . |
| 6 | As short a time as a few weeks previously she had been , when not bored , repelled by his music . |
| 7 | It was a triumph of planning in so short a time for so complicated a matter , most of it carried through in most places within a year or two years of the passing of the act . |
| 8 | As we said in Committee , eight years seems too short a time for the college to capitalise on experience gained by individual members . |
| 9 | It is particularly impressive that she was able to win such a prestigious commendation after so short a time in journalism . |
| 10 | In 1910 the German one was a tiny organisation with a staff of only three ; while in 1913 the head of its Italian equivalent pressed strongly for it to be run by journalists rather than diplomats , since the latter usually stayed too short a time in Rome to establish the necessary good relations with newspapers and correspondents . |
| 11 | Besides , ’ she added , cutting short a protest from Iris , ‘ I doubt if he 'd be willing to pay the sort of fee Joe Martin would insist on . ’ |
| 12 | Because here they were once again , making the same journey between the lift and the door of her apartment , too short a walk in which to resolve dilemmas or reach decisions . |
| 13 | Chaovalit 's successor as Army C.-in-C. , Gen. Suchinda Kraprayoon , was forced to cut short a visit to Singapore to return to Bangkok . |
| 14 | An invasion by Uganda-based rebels , launched on the night of Sept. 30-Oct. 1 , threatened the 17-year regime of President Juvenal Habyarimana , who cut short a visit to North America on hearing that his country was under attack . |
| 15 | According to an assessment by Jovic , who had cut short a visit to the UN in New York , the conflict between Serbia and Croatia , combined with escalating tensions in Slovenia ( see below ) , presented Yugoslavia with an unprecedented crisis . |
| 16 | It became , ‘ how can it possibly have come about in so short a period of time that so many women have become involved in politics ? ’ |
| 17 | He had come to France ( in which he spent more than half his life as king of England ) and had , as contemporaries recognised , achieved considerable conquests , something which his predecessors had never done on that scale or within so short a period of time . |
| 18 | Despite the support of parents , of fellow teachers , of priests and even of two hon. Members , one from each side of the House , that teacher was refused a hearing before the school governors and had too short a period of service to seek the support of an industrial tribunal . |