Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] space [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then you can carry on in your bid to break as many bones as humanly possible in the shortest space of time . ’ |
| 2 | In the short space of time it took him to walk across the room arm-in-arm with Mme de Ratho , he thought he saw … . |
| 3 | … and in the short space of time allocated to me I would like you to know that this is an occasion at which I am indeed proud — extremely proud — to be present . |
| 4 | In the short space of time she had been in the ATS she had become aware how easily she attracted the opposite sex , a power which did not appear to have been conferred in anything like the same degree on her contemporaries . |
| 5 | He should n't be in her thoughts at all , and yet she found that in the short space of time since she had met him he had sunk in , wormed his way into her mind with his disturbing home truths . |
| 6 | Asked by Crown counsel how Aindow had regained his balance , taken aim and fired in the short space of time available , the accused replied ‘ I do n't know ’ . |
| 7 | Substantial doubts had been raised by the difficultly of Coleman 's having committed the crime in the short space of time for which he had no alibi on the night of the murder , and by numerous statements gathered after the trial attesting that another resident of the small town of Grundy had boasted of having committed the crime . |
| 8 | In the same space of time she had married , embarked on a new and totally alien job , had a baby , celebrated her twenty-first birthday , and then had a second child — all momentous events in anyone 's life , without the other pressures she was having to cope with . |
| 9 | Despite the Peacocks ' less than perfect performances Chapman 's achievement in two years was no less remarkable than that at Northampton in the same space of time . |
| 10 | Well I would say that erm , in my time , er when they became unemployed , most of them could pick up a job pretty easy because I was speaking about from nineteen forty eight onwards , and of course er it was shortly after a war , there was plenty of work , and therefore most of them could pick up a job in a reasonable space of time and they would n't be idle too long . |
| 11 | Well the servants three servants are given one talent and their master tells them to erm do with it what they could in a certain space of time and he would reward them . |
| 12 | Cooke needs a return of the effervescence that earlier in the year made him England number one , English national champion and Commonwealth champion all in a short space of time . |
| 13 | Such catastrophic events , he believes , are more likely to be due to the receipt of a considerable volume of rainfall in a short space of time on to soils which are already saturated , as occurs during the monsoon season . |
| 14 | In a short space of time the crept workings in Wallsend , Wellington , Percy Main , Bebburn , Jarrow , Elswich and Berwell were all reopened . |
| 15 | Perhaps it is because a predator is able to find and eat relatively large numbers of aposematic prey in a short space of time , and that the high initial rate of feeding produces a more powerful reinforcement than a greater number of prey eaten over a longer period . |
| 16 | Several minor changes occurring in a short space of time can have a totting-up effect , challenging and even overloading the resources people have at their disposal . |
| 17 | The evidence shows that animals can vary their size extremely rapidly in a short space of time when they become , for example , geographically isolated from the main herd . |
| 18 | Alan Davies has done a very good job in a short space of time and if he remains as coach for three seasons or more Wales will be in with a fighting chance for the future — and certainly in the next World Cup ’ . |
| 19 | With four sales to cover in a short space of time your correspondent was left with the impression that there is no lack of interest in the subject , that the general standard of cataloguing is high , but prices remain depressed — except that is for anything related to Zeppelins and lighter-than-air aviation . |
| 20 | Fellow coach Robert Millington reckoned : ‘ Physiologically , they [ blacks ] are much better equipped than whites ; not so much with what they 've got to start with , but what they can achieve in a short space of time . |
| 21 | The problem is getting the material under control in order to reach ambitious learning goals in a short space of time . |
| 22 | Perhaps , not surprisingly , in a short space of time life skills training has become detached from the wider objectives associated with liberal humanist education : the point being that teaching young people about society has been replaced by criteria designed to alter their relationship with it . |
| 23 | In a short space of time , the coach was sticky with chocolate and fans were being sick out of the window . |
| 24 | The problem was more one of having to absorb a vast amount of information in a short space of time . |
| 25 | Still , he had been knocked out twice in a short space of time and would appreciate some rest . |
| 26 | She has a superb track record , exceptional experience , and in a short space of time has made an enormous contribution to both reestablishing Century 's image and restoring its profitability in conjunction with Arrow . ’ |
| 27 | Editor , — Dr Nigel Oswald , cited by Stella Lowry , is correct in implying that learning skills in clinical decision making requires seeing large numbers of patients in a short space of time . |
| 28 | But it soon became apparent to the pioneering voluntary organizations that established them , such as the Richmond Fellowship , that patients who had been mentally unwell for years did not miraculously become capable of independent living in a short space of time ; they often needed permanent help and support and coped particularly poorly with changes in their environment and lifestyle . |
| 29 | I had to find out a lot of things about you in a short space of time . |
| 30 | However , because refrigerators will not necessarily chill food down to the required temperature , plenty of establishments have become reliant on blast chillers to attain 0 to +5 degrees C levels in a short space of time . |