Example sentences of "will be [prep] short " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emergency Protection Orders will be of short duration and courts and their officers must work to timetables to avoid the damaging effects of delay and long drawn-out decision-making . |
| 2 | As a result the remedy can be repeated without causing the patient any aggravation ; or if aggravation should occur it will be of short duration , easily controlled . |
| 3 | Physicians may favour age criteria because they believe that the elderly are unlikely to benefit from treatment , that any benefit these patients enjoy will be of short duration , or that a diminished quality of life after treatment negates any possible benefit . |
| 4 | In this situation it will be difficult to generate manufactured or processed exports since the expertise to produce competitively for international markets will be in short supply , though some countries such as Zimbabwe will be able to build on their existing export base . |
| 5 | The comforts of home will be in short supply . |
| 6 | In all courses , teacher-time — the most expensive , and increasingly the scarcest , resource we have — will be in short supply . |
| 7 | However , it claims DEC missed an opportunity to ship revenue units based on the 4000 since January and believes the 150MHz Alphas likely to be announced November 10 will be in short supply for some time . |
| 8 | Space to grow plants will be in short supply indoors , but satisfactory quantities of culinary herbs can be grown ; fragrance is possible , from mignonette , pinks and jasmine , and household or medicinal herbs of the smaller species could find a place , too : chamomile , hyssop , rue and vervain are examples . |
| 9 | The bad news is that sunshine will be in short supply for the west coast , but there will be good sunny spells over central and eastern Scotland . |