Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] short a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | The notes refer to other dancers representing handmaidens , a bird and winds : rather complex for so short a work . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Strange , she had been in Denmark for so short a time yet in those few days she had learned so much , not only about herself but about a country she had never even considered visiting before Suzie 's escapade . |
6 | What seemed so dreadful was that he waited so long for the Premiership , and held it for so short a time … |
7 | It is particularly impressive that she was able to win such a prestigious commendation after so short a time in journalism . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | ‘ I 'm sure there are , but I can quite honestly say that you 're the first one I 've been aware of , or who 's made such a marked impression on me after so short an acquaintance . ’ |
11 | ‘ You mean that when we divorce after as short a time as possible you 'll give me a lump sum ? ’ she enquired , her voice frigid . |
12 | Once having established some means of communication , the basic skills of negotiation , bargaining , advocacy and counselling form the stuff of every social work interaction , of however short a duration . |
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 | Verbal presentations often fail because the speaker tries to cram too much into too short a time , or goes on for far too long . |
15 | I decided that I would have to get to the Butcher 's office first or at least early on in the queue so that I would be barefoot for as short a time as possible . |
16 | If you do give it , give it for as short a time as you can . |
17 | It is obviously better if trees can be out of the ground for as short a time as possible and it is much less expensive to buy bare root transplants . |
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 | The government was unwilling to comply within so short a time , however , because it relied upon the rural vote , and farmers had demonstrated twice in 1989 against the level of agricultural imports . |
20 | So much animosity in so short a call . |
21 | Wexford wondered how long since anyone had made so many damaging admissions in this office in so short a space of time . |
22 | Eudoxus initially is shocked by this possibility : ‘ Is it possible that any should so far grow out of frame that they should in so short a space quite forget their country and their own names ? ’ . |
23 | Indeed , it would be difficult to cover both a sick man and a dying man in so short a space . |
24 | This was the Wasp ’ that stung twice when 99 Spitfires were delivered to Malta in so short a period . |
25 | 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 ? ’ |
26 | Never had so many children developed weak bladders in so short a period . |
27 | One might well ask what has happened to transform the public mood from complacency to crisis in so short a time . |
28 | This is a tremendous response in so short a time . |
29 | Sceptics doubt the influence of the press , however , and especially whether it could have so much influence in so short a time . |
30 | 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 ) . |