Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the short [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Together they left the office , walking down the short corridor to a set of steps . |
| 2 | They 're ideal for saving in the short term and of course your money is accessible . |
| 3 | And in the long term , as Keynes might also have said , we will keep on worrying about the short term . |
| 4 | She was still struggling with the short introduction when her husband entered , bearing a breakfast tray . |
| 5 | John Pym , speaking in the Short Parliament on 17 April 1640 , enumerated the grievances of the king 's subjects . |
| 6 | She had her bath , which seemed to help , washing away her sorrows as well as the accumulated scum of living in a house where , for a female , baths were difficult — she remembered Dr Neil standing in the outhouse in the yard , pouring water over himself , the water running beneath the short door — all that she could see of him being his head and his bare feet . |
| 7 | The indication for transplantation for the 18 patients surviving in the short term was ischaemic heart muscle disease in 11 patients , dilated cardiomyopathy in six , including two with puerperal cardiomyopathy , and transient myocardial ischaemia with poor left ventricular function in one . |
| 8 | Only when these key steps have been taken will government and individuals alike be able to plan for the long term , instead of focusing on the short term and the next election . |
| 9 | Monnet himself seemed to be rather more cautious about going too fast too quickly , and seemed to hanker still for sectoral integration in the first instance , especially in the developing field of nuclear energy , as a strategy which stood a better chance of succeeding in the short term . |
| 10 | It is up to each one of us , he wrote , at every point in our lives , to decide how much order and how much disorder , how much discipline and how much freedom we need for the best realization of our project of the moment , even though that project may turn out to be flawed or even utterly mistaken in the short run , of course I am only talking about the short run , he wrote , in the long run , as I have already said , both success and failure are quite without meaning , the notion of meaning is quite without meaning . |