Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a short period [prep] " in BNC.

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1 45133 and 50015 will then move on for a short period to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway before returning to Butterley .
2 Whether or not these jobs were available only for a short period of time , they were regarded by their holders as temporary .
3 But they do , they get paid a lot of money but only for a short period of time .
4 It seems that Gainsborough produced such works as favours for important clients , but only for a short period in his career , later preferring oil on paper for smaller portraits of this sort .
5 Only for a short period in the mid-1980s , when commodity prices and demand for semi-conductors slumped , did Malaysia risk hitting its borrowing ceiling .
6 This level of pay was never conceived of as being a realizable objective for a statutory minimum wage that would be brought in over a short period of time .
7 If all the etch-resist is completely stripped away in a short period of time , then perhaps the whole board has been exposed at some stage to too much UV light .
8 Salesmen who underperformed even over a short period at the futures bucket shops , were put on " terminal ! "
9 When a particular task requires expatriates to work overseas for a short period of time , it is common for employers to hire people with the necessary skills on short , fixed-term contracts .
10 He was soon posted to England and then for a short period to Brussels before leaving the Bank in 1975 .
11 This may not prove to be a serious problem , but having it happen twice in a short period of time makes me wonder .
12 Cheddars may be hard or semi-hard ; they are pressed lightly for a matter of hours and then more firmly for a short period of days .
13 Apart from a short period between May 1929 and October 1931 , it was the largest political party throughout the inter-war years .
14 Given the cash generating capacity of Darty and Kingfisher , he said : ‘ I am confident that gearing will reduce significantly in a short period of time . ’
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