Example sentences of "[adv] short in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In due course it was bred a little shorter in the leg , with finer bone and a better udder , though it was still disparaged as being rather ungainly and plain . |
| 2 | Although much less impressive in its architecture and much shorter in its working life , Oil Mill , nonetheless , has had an interesting and varied career . |
| 3 | For example , the banqueting season is much shorter in the provinces than in London . |
| 4 | Two of the safest field marks are bill colour ( vermilion Common , blood-red Arctic ) and leg length ( much shorter in Arctic , which at rest may almost appear legless ) . |
| 5 | In the royal dockyards the basic day was twelve hours but it was necessarily shorter in winter , and in summer overtime shifts known as " tides " were often worked . |
| 6 | We are told much less of Mrs Tibbs 's appearance — only , indeed , that she is ‘ somewhat short in stature ’ — while the opening sentence , which describes her personality , is comparatively so brief that she seems to reflect the house , not vice versa . |
| 7 | Anderson 's contributions are generally shorter in the later scenes in the play ( from scenes seven to sixteen Anderson 's average turn-length is 8.4 words/turn compared with 14.3 words/turn in scenes one to six ) . |
| 8 | It 's usual to hang ceiling paper parallel with the main window in the room , but if you 're tackling the job for the first time and the room is noticeably shorter in one dimension , you may find it easier to manage shorter lengths and hang it the other way . |
| 9 | Slightly shorter in length , and with a 90sq in headsize rather than the 95 and 105 which are currently the norm , the Challenge 26 is also lighter and specially balanced to suit female and junior players . |
| 10 | This prototype — 226 now 700 — differed from the production models in having lower sides and being slightly shorter in length . |
| 11 | This way they at least get a chance to see good , moving , beautiful and interesting things , to lengthen their sense of history ( notoriously short in the US ) . |
| 12 | They are also short in certain conditions in disyllables and polysyllables . |
| 13 | The Maritime school can counter-claim that casualty lists were far shorter in these two wars . |
| 14 | The liduid emptying half time was correspondingly shorter in the patients with idiopathic DU ( median 28 min ( range 22–38 ) ) than in the H pylori negative healthy volunteers ( 39 ( 35–66 ) ; p<0.001 ) . |
| 15 | The solid emptying half time was correspondingly shorter in the patients with idiopathic DU ( median 67 min ( range 11–221 ) ) compared with the H pylori positive patients with DU ( 180 ( 62–1500 ; p<0.01 ) and H pylori negative healthy volunteers ( 431 ( 58–838 ) ; p<0.001 ) . |
| 16 | Jackson JCR2L Randy Rhoads Tribute Often cited as a contender for Eddie Van Halen 's crown and an undisputedly original voice on his instrument , Randy Rhoads ' life was cut tragically short in a flying accident . |
| 17 | Charles pointed out that Aimee could consider going even shorter in the future to emphasise fully her delicate bone structure , a feature which her old hairstyle had failed to draw attention to because it had tended to drag her face downwards . |
| 18 | And Victoria was even shorter in stature and a whole year younger than Gemma . |
| 19 | Rear pasterns are relatively short in length and nearly perpendicular to the ground . |
| 20 | Conversely , less important words should be lower in pitch , relatively short in duration , given weaker dynamic values and placed in subordinate positions in a rhythmic design . |
| 21 | Taylor said : ‘ Lawrie spoke to Alex and as we had lost David Batty we were quite short in mid-field . |
| 22 | ‘ The undergrowth was quite short in those days . ’ |
| 23 | It is perhaps hardly more than an anecdote , generally quite short in length , in which towards the end the reader , who has been gently led along one seemingly well-defined path , is suddenly switched into seeing the situation in quite a different light . |
| 24 | It should be noted that the mean open time was significantly longer and the mean closed time was significantly shorter in the inside out patches than in the cell attached patches ( 30.4 ( 8.1 ) ms v 6.8 ( 0.7 ) ms , p<0.05 and 1.5 ( 0.2 ) ms v 3.0 ( 0.5 ) ms , p<0.05 respectively ) . |
| 25 | The stay in hospital was significantly shorter in the epinephrine plus pure alcohol group ( mean 4.5 v 6.7 , p<0.05 ) . |
| 26 | The list of sons of the right sort , still available in this country , was miserably short in comparison with that of the golden lads who had come to dust in Flanders and other places . |
| 27 | The layout of the aircraft was unusual in that the fuselage was set well back on the wing , that his the nose was very short in relation to the length of the rear fuselage . |
| 28 | Actually you go there to work , but there is er a meal break and various things , you have contact with each other , either borrowing tools or sharing the use of them , but tempers get very short in the small hours of the morning and men get pretty tired . |
| 29 | The perforations for BA-1 are known to be very short in penetration length . |
| 30 | But do n't forget this this is a very important time with the all the increase coming in they 've got a helluva lot to take on , not just learning the company but they got the new routes and everything and it 's going to leave I would 've thought very short in an exceptionally busy period |