Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] short [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike adults , infants may show very short delays between sleep onset and active sleep onset , sometimes going straight into active sleep . |
| 2 | The normal subject displayed only short bursts of reflux with a maximum duration of four minutes . |
| 3 | All the same , solitary bucks — if they can find no existing holes to make use of — will sometimes scratch out short tunnels for shelter , although it is not work that they tackle at all seriously . |
| 4 | The regulations determining how short spells of employment affect subsequent rights to Unemployment Benefit are often unclearly presented , even in specialist publications ( for example , Smith/Rowland , 1986 ) . |
| 5 | The houses cluster along short culs-de-sac from distributor roads , and separate footways and cyclepaths occupy the central open space . |
| 6 | He could have complained to the top about my basic lack of professionalism but instead he went out of his way to try and help — and sometimes got pretty short shrift in return . |
| 7 | 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 . |