Example sentences of "so short [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So short a time ago they had found and shared a grassy path in a brief Eden of summerblue skies , tapestry green and flowered meadows , every day a delight , the world a beautiful old master cleaned in the zephyr of Lucy 's being . |
| 2 | He drew attention to the three spelling mistakes Leonard manages to include in so short a piece , marked by ( ! ) , and at the points we enumerate offers the following marginal comments : 1 . ) |
| 3 | The two archbishops thought that Ramsey would be an excellent bishop but it was not right , it was bad for the Church as well as for the study of divinity , to take him out of the Cambridge chair after so short a tenure . |
| 4 | Wexford wondered how long since anyone had made so many damaging admissions in this office in so short a space of time . |
| 5 | Their Empire holds so short a Reign ; |
| 6 | One might well ask what has happened to transform the public mood from complacency to crisis in so short a time . |
| 7 | The notes refer to other dancers representing handmaidens , a bird and winds : rather complex for so short a work . |
| 8 | This is a tremendous response in so short a time . |
| 9 | Sceptics doubt the influence of the press , however , and especially whether it could have so much influence in so short a time . |
| 10 | It is particularly impressive that she was able to win such a prestigious commendation after so short a time in journalism . |
| 11 | Was it because he had no hope that he had lasted so short a time ? |
| 12 | This was the Wasp ’ that stung twice when 99 Spitfires were delivered to Malta in so short a period . |
| 13 | It is quite remarkable that from so early an age with so short a track record he should have inspired such an industry of interest . |
| 14 | Since Brusilov had not concentrated his troops in any one area , nor made tactical probes , and since the artillery bombardment lasted so short a time , the Austrians had no inkling of his intentions . |
| 15 | 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 ? ’ |
| 16 | Despite all the obvious practical difficulties that Edward encountered in maintaining the siege , its abandonment after so short a time must raise questions about the extent of his commitment , even at this stage of the war , to the French throne . |
| 17 | So much animosity in so short a call . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Never had so many children developed weak bladders in so short a period . |
| 20 | Therefore , if the origin of the phenomenon is as recent as the late eighteenth century , it is difficult to explain how it could have become so geographically widespread in so short a time : it was already highly salient and overtly stigmatized by the latter half of the nineteenth century ( for some citations see Phillipps , 1984 , 136–9 ) . |
| 21 | It was a triumph of planning in so short a time for so complicated a matter , most of it carried through in most places within a year or two years of the passing of the act . |
| 22 | Even so it is strange that Veblen should have failed to recognise the magnitude of what the fierce emulation of railroad promoters , industrialists and bankers in fact managed to achieve in North America during so short a space of time . |
| 23 | Most often she stands with the left foot forward ( a borrowing no doubt from the kouros , but it is not like his a full stride , rather so short a step as to seem like a dance-motion ) , left hand pulling the skirt to the side and letting a swag hang free , right forearm raised forward with an offering . |
| 24 | If the interval during which he kept his eyes closed was very short , say one second , he could maintain that we could not have exchanged our places in so short a time and invoke the laws of physics in support of his view . |
| 25 | She was blonde and doll-faced , but her blue eyes gave the impression that she 'd just about seen everything , and rather more than was healthy for so short a life . |
| 26 | So much change , in so short a time ; Pete felt as if he 'd aged more in ten weeks than in the ten years that had gone before . |
| 27 | I would remember , against my will , the fragrance of coffee and hot bread , the energy that had possessed me so short a time ago , when I had felt supple as an eel , as powerful as a salmon , as sure and quiet and graceful as an owl . |
| 28 | So short a time ago ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I suppose the defendant thought he had some benefit ; at any rate , there is a detriment to the plaintiff from his parting with the possession for even so short a time . |