Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [adv] short period " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will become tame enough after a relatively short period of time , to take food from your fingers . |
| 2 | If the oil film breaks down momentarily for a very short period of time that little bit of carbon that four percent carbon in the cast iron will actually stop the aluminium sticking to the cylinder . |
| 3 | As a result of the reforms , already in a very short period we see improved services , shortened waiting lists , and so on . |
| 4 | On the one hand , ethnic minorities currently settled in Britain have been here for a relatively short period of time , and it seems that circumstances of migration and initial settlement are conditions under which support between siblings assumes greater significance than it might otherwise do — a point illustrated by the patterns of chain migration and of joint households which I discussed earlier in this chapter . |
| 5 | However , on rare occasions — perhaps twice before in recorded history — a change occurs so profound and so far-reaching that the entire orientation of society is altered completely in a relatively short period . |
| 6 | But only very for a very short period . |