Example sentences of "short [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will , therefore , be capable of cutting short the period of time available for an activated word detector to generate and transmit a code to the lexical output systems . |
| 2 | In Turkey , the September coup brought to power a military regime headed by General Evren , cutting short the period of civilian parliamentary politics in which the personalities of Ecevit and Demirel were prominent and which was marred by much violence , urban and rural alike , with right- and left-wing extremists involved . |
| 3 | This was the Wasp ’ that stung twice when 99 Spitfires were delivered to Malta in so short a period . |
| 4 | It became , ‘ how can it possibly have come about in so short a period of time that so many women have become involved in politics ? ’ |
| 5 | He had come to France ( in which he spent more than half his life as king of England ) and had , as contemporaries recognised , achieved considerable conquests , something which his predecessors had never done on that scale or within so short a period of time . |
| 6 | Never had so many children developed weak bladders in so short a period . |
| 7 | Too many options within a single program tempt the teacher to try and use all of them in too short a period . |
| 8 | Taskopruzade includes in his account , however , between Molla Husrev 's appointments on the death of Hizir Bey and his departure for Bursa , a considerable amount of material more or less related to Molla Husrev 's activities in these capacities , enough to make it improbable in the extreme that he held the offices for so short a period . |
| 9 | Despite the support of parents , of fellow teachers , of priests and even of two hon. Members , one from each side of the House , that teacher was refused a hearing before the school governors and had too short a period of service to seek the support of an industrial tribunal . |
| 10 | The eggs hatch to L1 on the pasture and may develop to L3 in as short a period as five days but development may be delayed for weeks or months under cool conditions . |