Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] short [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll stay as short a time as I can . ’ |
| 2 | As we said in Committee , eight years seems too short a time for the college to capitalise on experience gained by individual members . |
| 3 | The Builder commented that the submission date of 1st February , 1857 gave too short a time and that it was a mistake to divide the competition into three parts . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She had n't realized how short a time it was until their departure . |
| 6 | Was it because he had no hope that he had lasted so short a time ? |
| 7 | In 1910 the German one was a tiny organisation with a staff of only three ; while in 1913 the head of its Italian equivalent pressed strongly for it to be run by journalists rather than diplomats , since the latter usually stayed too short a time in Rome to establish the necessary good relations with newspapers and correspondents . |