Example sentences of "[adv] short [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember a graphic example of this when I was working for a blessedly short period as a Russian interpreter in Berlin in 1946 . |
| 2 | And so it was that all Hollywood 's difficulties led somewhat accidentally to what Ralph A. Bauer has described as a period whose movies ‘ were perhaps as varied and intriguing ’ as the movies produced in any comparably short period in American history . |
| 3 | In 1870 there were still only short stretches of line in North and South Africa , the only railway of any significance being that between Alexandria and Suez , opened in 1852 and superseded by the Canal in 1869 . |
| 4 | The normal subject displayed only short bursts of reflux with a maximum duration of four minutes . |
| 5 | It was interesting that all three patients after vagotomy and pyloroplasty had negative provocation tests and only short periods in which DGR fluid contained high concentrations of sodium ( Table I ) compared with three out of four patients after Billroth 1 gastrectomy who had positive provocation tests and high sodium concentrations . |
| 6 | It was by the celebrated Matthew Buchinger , born in Germany without legs and only short stumps of arms without hands . |
| 7 | About 20 syllables and 6 basic themes have been recognised in the whales ' singing , which can continue through day and night with only short pauses for breath . |
| 8 | There is clearly no sense in setting an impossibly short timetable in order to impress the client . |
| 9 | 16.39 ( i ) Pupils working towards level 6 should be reading some texts not written specifically for children or young people , eg short stories with a contemporary setting . |
| 10 | The houses cluster along short culs-de-sac from distributor roads , and separate footways and cyclepaths occupy the central open space . |
| 11 | Placing in electrode into the culture medium and delivering an extremely short burst of current ( a matter of nanoseconds ) they found that the two different cell types fused together in pairs . |
| 12 | Lots of the slicker , more citified proles ' sons had this extremely short hair by '68 after having had long hair . |
| 13 | In contrast , with pattern masking , subjects report seeing a crisp , clear high-contrast target for an extremely short period of time , too short for the target to be reportable . |
| 14 | Er , judging by the noise I can hear some people have finished , some people have extremely short statements of about what they think is important and some people have got no statements . |
| 15 | Masterpieces by El Greco , Carracci , Murillo and Teniers were secured by the First Duke of Montagu of the second creation and his wife in the mid-eighteenth century , while as Rosamond Savile documents , the celebrated collection of Sèvres was acquired , in an astonishingly short period in 1830–31 , by the Fifth Duke of Buccleuch , who also greatly enriched the holdings of French furniture . |
| 16 | And the kind of thing they made of course erm were just short moments of motion , short silent films which showed action which lasted about a minute . |
| 17 | After a few minutes with Mr Malik , Robert himself quite often felt like making the frighteningly short journey from doubt to belief . |
| 18 | Intel Corp , obliquely confirming nagging reports that Pentium chips will be in critically short supply at least until October , now says it will ship only about 100,000 of the chips by the end of the year , where only two months ago it was talking ‘ hundreds of thousands ’ of parts this year ; Intel now sees 10,000 Pentiums going out by the end of June , 40,000 in the third quarter , and some 50,000 in fourth . |
| 19 | It seemed only minutes , desperately short minutes at that , before she was riding smoothly up a huge curved drive towards a house whose long windows were ablaze with light . |
| 20 | WSR Managing Director Mark Smith explained : ‘ You wo n't see grown men playing with glamorous engines and trains over short lengths of track here . |
| 21 | In the dirty , brutal and often painfully short life of a Goblin the chance of swooping through the air and smashing right through their enemies is just too good to miss . |
| 22 | It also failed to deal with the unreasonably short times for notices of claims against carriers ; and it did not reverse the burden of proof that weighed upon the shipper whenever the carrier claimed the application of seemingly valid exculpatory clauses . |
| 23 | In addition to the disclaimers , carriers used other clauses that limited the amount recoverable to very low sums , and established unreasonably short periods for the presentation of a claim . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't think this is an unreasonably short period of acclimatisation , ’ added Walsh , who climbed his first 8,000-er in the shape of Cho Oyu two years ago . |
| 25 | On the other disc , Teldec offers Symphony No. 15 on its own — distinctly short measure at under 45 minutes . |
| 26 | boundary changes that we would like to have the full panoply of o o of inquiry a as the honourable gentleman knows , the the timetable was short here and what we had to do was to follow the model , er that had been provided by the last Labour government in seventy eight when it had a similarly tight timetable , took a similarly er er period , similarly short period of time er for the reviews and where erm the normal enquiries had to be dispensed with . |
| 27 | Yes and on the whole recently we 've had prisoners who been imprison for sort of two or three years , we 've , we 've made up petitions , we 've sent postcards and we 've , we 've written letters and er they 've been released in reasonably short space of time , but then mostly the prisoners which , who have n't had a very long sentence , unlike the one I mentioned on the way here tonight , have the Russian who had been in thirty years |
| 28 | But both have their roots in the land and within a reasonably short space of time Low Birk Hatt is due to emerge , its amenities vastly improved , as a family home with cattle grazing the land around it |
| 29 | But with exceptionally short overhangs at front and rear , it combines this ‘ big car stability ’ with the predictable handling and the nimbleness of a supermini . |
| 30 | Tomorrow John Aldridge and Tranmere visit Fratton Park and you 'd get decidedly short odds on the chances of a goal from either of them ! |