Example sentences of "[prep] a short space of time " in BNC.

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1 He did n't seem to notice , and continued , his voice rising even more : ‘ I believe when people come here on vacation they come to escape the perpetual grey in their lives for a short space of time .
2 It is more important for them to defer their childbearing and to compress it into a short space of time in their married life .
3 That is , whether spaced out advertising — the " drip " — over a long period would work better than heavy advertising , the " burst " , concentrated into a short space of time .
4 Within a short space of time referrals were regularly coming in .
5 In April 1962 he wrote ‘ Blowin' in the Wind ’ , and within a short space of time he had been adopted as the spokesman of the civil-rights movement .
6 Chopping and changing your behaviour within a short space of time is likely to confuse and be unhelpful .
7 Within a short space of time , the laboratory had ceased to be involved in the launch vehicles , themselves ( so making ‘ Jet Propulsion ’ a highly anomalous title ) , and had become connected to the newly-formed NASA empire .
8 They suggest that if current trends in world population growth , industrialisation , pollution , food production and the depletion of non-renewable resources continue , then within a short space of time , perhaps less than a hundred years , economic growth will come to a halt , the industrial base of the world economy will collapse and finally after severe global recession and famine , not only will population growth fall dramatically but so will the level of population itself .
9 In old age several major losses may occur within a short space of time .
10 The researches of Robert Whiting into the impact of the official reformation on the people of Devon and Cornwall have revealed that even in this conservative part of the country , where attachment to Catholic ritual had been particularly strong , statues of the saints began to disappear from churches soon after their condemnation by the Henrician injunctions , and within a short space of time the wills of the laity contained fewer references to images or intercessory masses .
11 Within a short space of time , however , there were already signs that the Brussels structure was running away from the British idea .
12 Each produced a significant shift in course and within a short space of time wrought a substantial transformation in the direction of national policy and popular attitudes .
13 Within a short space of time Richard had captured no less than seventeen castles and with garrisons installed in Cahors and Moissac was firmly in control of the Quercy .
14 Within a short space of time , Labour 's traditional approach based on careful empirical observation of issues was overwhelmed .
15 How can a Head Teacher have the confidence to call in an adviser for consultation on a problem in his school when he is conscious that , as a consequence of that consultation , his school may be subjected to intense overtly critical scrutiny within a short space of time ?
16 In the former , the largest firm first announces price changes and the other firms then follow within a short space of time ; in the latter , some non-dominant firm , which presumably is considered the best at judging the market conditions , plays this role .
17 Within a short space of time the student comes to a gradual understanding of the various patterns of attack .
18 He registered with a G.P. near his London home who contacted his District Health Authority who readily agreed to finance his brain operation as an extra contractual referral , and surgery was carried out within a short space of time .
19 When complete silence had fallen he then produced a sheet of paper from his pocket , folded it back on itself to remove the crease , smoothed it out a number of times and then read a statement to the effect that inquiries were proceeding , steps being taken , fruitful avenues opening up and concrete results expected within a short space of time .
20 Within a short space of time the data files are likely to be lost or become obsolete as the technology of the host institution changes .
21 ‘ So within a short space of time she lost her baby and permanently lost her ability to have another baby with serious and lasting consequences to her health and eventually fatal consequences for her marriage . ’
22 Cooke needs a return of the effervescence that earlier in the year made him England number one , English national champion and Commonwealth champion all in a short space of time .
23 Such catastrophic events , he believes , are more likely to be due to the receipt of a considerable volume of rainfall in a short space of time on to soils which are already saturated , as occurs during the monsoon season .
24 In a short space of time the crept workings in Wallsend , Wellington , Percy Main , Bebburn , Jarrow , Elswich and Berwell were all reopened .
25 Perhaps it is because a predator is able to find and eat relatively large numbers of aposematic prey in a short space of time , and that the high initial rate of feeding produces a more powerful reinforcement than a greater number of prey eaten over a longer period .
26 Several minor changes occurring in a short space of time can have a totting-up effect , challenging and even overloading the resources people have at their disposal .
27 The evidence shows that animals can vary their size extremely rapidly in a short space of time when they become , for example , geographically isolated from the main herd .
28 Alan Davies has done a very good job in a short space of time and if he remains as coach for three seasons or more Wales will be in with a fighting chance for the future — and certainly in the next World Cup ’ .
29 With four sales to cover in a short space of time your correspondent was left with the impression that there is no lack of interest in the subject , that the general standard of cataloguing is high , but prices remain depressed — except that is for anything related to Zeppelins and lighter-than-air aviation .
30 Fellow coach Robert Millington reckoned : ‘ Physiologically , they [ blacks ] are much better equipped than whites ; not so much with what they 've got to start with , but what they can achieve in a short space of time .
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