Example sentences of "[noun] in so [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much animosity in so short a call . |
| 2 | Sceptics doubt the influence of the press , however , and especially whether it could have so much influence in so short a time . |
| 3 | One might well ask what has happened to transform the public mood from complacency to crisis in so short a time . |
| 4 | If the interval during which he kept his eyes closed was very short , say one second , he could maintain that we could not have exchanged our places in so short a time and invoke the laws of physics in support of his view . |
| 5 | This is a tremendous response in so short a time . |
| 6 | This was the Wasp ’ that stung twice when 99 Spitfires were delivered to Malta in so short a period . |
| 7 | Indeed , it would be difficult to cover both a sick man and a dying man in so short a space . |
| 8 | Never had so many children developed weak bladders in so short a period . |
| 9 | The authors are indeed to be congratulated on producing such a clear and authoritative treatment of their subject in so short a time . |
| 10 | Probably because there might have been an echo of the headmaster in so public a request . |
| 11 | Could one fall in love in so short a time ? |
| 12 | Although gossip was that Churchill had been tempted , given the mighty scale of Germany 's achievements in so short a time , the iron returned to his soul and he steamrollered furiously through his doubting Cabinet . |
| 13 | Rarely can there have been so many upheavals in the landscape in so short a time . |
| 14 | All examples show similar characteristics ; they are generally stone vaulted — an unusual feature in so early a period and rare in southern Europe — the majority have cupolas supported on squinches and/or intersecting barrel vaults ; the stonework is solid but crude ; ornament generally includes interlacing in bands of carving on stone borders and the patterns are made up from circles , diamonds or zig-zags — the interlacing is like a prototype of the later Romanesque basket work patterns . |
| 15 | What was happening to them that this awareness had reached such a pitch in so short a time ? |
| 16 | Wexford wondered how long since anyone had made so many damaging admissions in this office in so short a space of time . |