Example sentences of "[noun] in [adv] [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 | The result was another memorable moment in Too Long a Winter . |
| 4 | One might well ask what has happened to transform the public mood from complacency to crisis in so short a time . |
| 5 | In all these cases some form of consultation of all interested parties and groups , and mutually acceptable or advantageous adjustment of the competing possibilities in as wide a context as possible is desirable . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The researchers were therefore able to show small changes attributable to natural selection in as short a time as two months , a truly remarkable discovery . |
| 8 | With the independent network still smarting over BSkyB 's controversial £304 million capture of coverage of the new Premier League it was a second severe setback in just over a week . |
| 9 | SLIMMERS have piled on more than a thousand pounds in little over a month … and they are delighted . |
| 10 | It 's lost two senior partners to Yorkshire firms in little over a year . |
| 11 | It is designed to test the breadth of the student 's knowledge in as wide a range of skills as possible , as they will shortly be facing the even greater demands of the real world outside college . |
| 12 | This is a tremendous response in so short a time . |
| 13 | A spokesman said that the poachers were " redoubling their efforts to kill as many horned rhino in as short a time as possible " . |
| 14 | Too much horror in too short a space of time . |
| 15 | ‘ Anthony Stewart comes to trial in just over a week 's time . ’ |
| 16 | The next payment is therefore due for collection in just over a week 's time . |
| 17 | This was the Wasp ’ that stung twice when 99 Spitfires were delivered to Malta in so short a period . |
| 18 | Indeed , it would be difficult to cover both a sick man and a dying man in so short a space . |
| 19 | Never had so many children developed weak bladders in so short a period . |
| 20 | If your plan is to move ahead quickly and gain promotion in as short a time as possible , you would probably fare best in an area where the shortage of suitably qualified staff is most acute . |
| 21 | The authors are indeed to be congratulated on producing such a clear and authoritative treatment of their subject in so short a time . |
| 22 | Probably because there might have been an echo of the headmaster in so public a request . |
| 23 | The premature termination of breastfeeding that typically occurs when conception follows a birth in too short a time contributes to inadequate nutrition of the weaned child and explains , at least in part , the morbidity ( and mortality ) levels among children in the second year of life . |
| 24 | Could one fall in love in so short a time ? |
| 25 | So dead bodies are hygienically whisked away by undertakers within a very short ti me of the person dying , funerals are conducted in twenty minutes at a busy crematorium with a bizarre queue of other funerals waiting in an approach way , and grieving people are expected to be back at their employment in as short a time as possible . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Yet retrospectively he envied the Mallory children their hardships — the shared beds , the shoes that pinched , the heaps of washing , the inconvenience of too many babies in too short a time , the lack of privacy , the meagre pocket-money , the quarrels and tears , because with these things went other things infinitely precious , laughter and love , tenderness and the joy of living , things signally missing from his own childhood . |
| 28 | A lot of people still remember Her Ladyship , the little white cow which was featured such a lot in Too Long a Winter , and so do I , of course . |
| 29 | Introduction of the new machines with a more relaxed attitude toward third party hardware has meant that adding large screens in no longer a problem although the prices are still higher than a corresponding PC-based device . |
| 30 | I 'm twenty , and I shall be a fully trained nurse in just over a year , and I 'm not as innocent as you seem to imagine . |