Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] in a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may indicate that user interfaces to query structures can not yet replicate human processes of spatial reasoning in a reasonable time , or that in software terms it is inefficient to extend SQL , and that an alternative must be found . |
| 2 | It was one of the best AAA 100 metres in a long time . |
| 3 | Erm a light bulb is not using much electricity in a given time . |
| 4 | The fire brigade which was at the first blaze about 100 yards away extinguished the second fire in a short time . |
| 5 | Shildon had made remarkable progress in a short time but needed help as he was trying to do his normal work for the business section at the same time . |
| 6 | ‘ Out of the stuff I 've heard , ‘ This Is Not A Song ’ by The Frank & Walters is one of the most moving songs in a long time . |
| 7 | And I have n't had these dreams in a long time , and I used to never do anything like that . |
| 8 | This exercise produces quite startling gains in a short time . |
| 9 | People always knock someone who has achieved a great deal in a short time . |
| 10 | Tim Holton said : ‘ We have achieved a great deal in a short time but there is still a long way to go . |
| 11 | evaluation of expressions involving simple arithmetic , exponential , trigonometric , logarithmic or logical functions in a reasonable time |
| 12 | Mr Patten is on record as saying that teachers have experienced too many changes in a short time and perhaps deserve a period of stability . |
| 13 | For example , on almond trees : ‘ I find them to be trees making a good hedge in a short time … look well round a little wilderness quarters planted with flowering shrubs in a small garden . ’ |
| 14 | You 've come a long way in a short time . ’ |
| 15 | He has driven himself a long way in a short time ( abandoning , for example , the naïve ) ; he will drive on , and we shall have to see how he uses this hardness , emphasis , energy and comprehensiveness , how much more power he has of development . ’ |
| 16 | Instead , I took up running in order to take more exercise in a shorter time . |
| 17 | The body of a young child works at the maximum rate , enabling the child to process far more information in a given time than an adult could . |
| 18 | Diesels are much loved by the carriage trade , and can rack up alarming mileages in a short time . |
| 19 | Well the accident was was that if you look at the junctions along that section of road and carried out qualifications junction , you could release , reduce delays from junctions and effect of your making your total journey in a shorter time making that route slightly more attractive . |
| 20 | And even those who do achieve something lack the scope to go further because ‘ Indians and India are the grandest failures in a long time ’ . |
| 21 | This seems to indicate that the college considers that a subspecialist trainee can acquire general skills in a shorter time than an academic trainee . |
| 22 | and for the first time in a long time … manager Smith can name an unchanged team … keep a winning side … |
| 23 | Type A jobs are where the responsibility is for completing a finite task in a finite time , the typical project leader situation . |
| 24 | Project management is concerned with achieving a specific goal in a given time using resources available for that period only . |
| 25 | The Army had taught him that , too , and the SAS acceptance tests had rammed the lesson home by sending him out over the damp Brecon Beacons with a 55-lb Bergen rucksack knowing he had to cover a certain distance in a certain time but not knowing that when he had done it , there would n't be the trucks they had promised but a vague assur-ance of a cup of tea if he kept on marching a few more miles in that direction . |
| 26 | Paul Savage , who has already won Irish championships at novice and intermediate level with Queen 's University , is one of the best prospects in a long time to come ‘ up the road ’ to Hay Island . |
| 27 | By comparison , one of the matching health authorities would claim to have de-hospitalized over a hundred patients in a short time through one specialist developmental officer alone . |
| 28 | It was a bright moment in a dark time . |
| 29 | This problem can be overcome by subjecting them to an external force , strong enough to alter their spatial distribution by a significant amount in a short time . |