Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [be] [adv] short " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this system to work , the click must be so short that its echo is heard before the next click is made and drowns it . |
| 2 | You might think that combining all these things into one aircraft could lead to so many compromises that the result would be little short of disaster . |
| 3 | Since no particular attempt is being made to study spontaneous , informal conversation , the interview can be extremely short , focusing clearly on the linguistic features in which the investigator is interested . |
| 4 | It did n't stop them getting into very severe financial difficulties , and you may have read about this in recent times , it , there 's a proposal that the Science and Engineering Research Council may be so short of funds it may close the laboratory down . |
| 5 | The reply to my letter tamely confirmed this , explaining that it was considered wasteful and expensive to train anyone of that age , for their service would be too short . |
| 6 | Careers at the top can be mercilessly short . |
| 7 | Very often during training , a student will be rather short of height but will just have sufficient for a normal approach . |
| 8 | Potentially , RISC programs may have an even larger number of calls since the complex instructions found in CISCs are subroutines in RISC I. Thus the procedure call must be as short as possible , perhaps only a few jumps . |
| 9 | After less than three hours hitting a ball on a tennis court in the last four weeks , the American will be desperately short of match practice at the start of the sport 's most traditional tournament . |
| 10 | The reflow period following this brief ischaemia may be as short as 1 min , but protection wanes if the reflow is extended beyond 1 h . |
| 11 | Algebraically , this can be shown to be equivalent to , If the energy required to propagate the crack by producing the two new fracture surfaces were really confined to C , the free surface energy ( which is seldom much above I J/m 2 ) , then simple arithmetic will show that , at any realistic stress level , the critical crack length would be very short indeed , perhaps around a micron . |
| 12 | Your letter can be quite short . |
| 13 | The national Press must be very short on good news stories to stoop to these levels of reporting . |
| 14 | For a long time it looked like the 500 GP career he started just last year would be very short . |
| 15 | A half life calculated in this way would be falsely short . |
| 16 | Total production this year will be just short of the 1000 mark . |
| 17 | Material should be very short and to the point . |
| 18 | This assumes that the period of Newco 's ownership of shares in Target would be sufficiently short for there to have been no increase in their value , so that when the capital distribution takes place , there is no capital gains tax liability on the partners under s122 TCGA 1992 , nor a distribution for the purposes of s209 TA 1988 . |
| 19 | The response time can be as short as ninety seconds . ’ |