Example sentences of "[verb] [art] short time " in BNC.
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| 1 | To-night he must make the shortest time of it he could to Strata Marcella , reassure himself that his father 's grave had not been desecrated , and warn the prior of Isambard 's malignant interest in it . |
| 2 | Stephen entered a short time later , looking anxious . |
| 3 | The live Genesis compilation from this year 's world tour covers a shorter time span but it at least has an unusual , if clumsy , title — The Way We Walk , Volume 1 : The Shorts . |
| 4 | This was resolved a short time later when an unstable product of a short-term incubation of arachidonic acid with cyclo-oxygenase prepared from the vesicular gland of sheep was found to induce platelet aggregation ( Willis & Kuhn , 1973 ) . |
| 5 | Du n no people have said like that will last a really short time or a really long time , but what 's considered a short time I know what a long time is , a long time is like sort of four months three sort of four months onwards in n it for like people our age , what would a short time be they ? |
| 6 | I was then permitted a short time during the lunch interval to study this new material before being cross-examined on it . |
| 7 | If , however , a bond only has a short time left to maturity , it will be much more liquid : its market price will be near its face value . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , apparently she only has a short time to live ; David came back to be with her — he 's even living at Brooklands . ’ |
| 9 | It seems clear , however that the initial cancellation only added a short time to the eventual arrival of the ambulance . |
| 10 | A minute may sound a short time , but it can easily mean the difference between life and death to someone in the water . ’ |
| 11 | I 'd like a short time on board before the start , if you would n't mind . ’ |
| 12 | She was also hungry , very hungry , she acknowledged a short time later as she did justice to the duckling and fresh vegetables Roman had ordered . |
| 13 | Got a short time . |
| 14 | The child was lured into a car but managed to escape a short time later . |
| 15 | Accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh , she will spend a short time in the town on Wednesday , 30 June . |
| 16 | She could only stay a short time , but long enough to hear John thank her for the gift of her daughter . |
| 17 | The ABI , however , imposes a shorter time limit . |
| 18 | This selects the case which takes the shortest time to generate the income needed to pay back the total investment in the project . |
| 19 | This selects the case which takes the shortest time to generate the income needed to pay back the total investment in the project . |
| 20 | ‘ Our stables are just a few miles away at Bognor and it only takes a short time to get him there . |
| 21 | The GIs had moved out years earlier , and Latinos and a few Asian former warriors from Vietnam and Cambodia had taken their place in houses that were built cheaply to last a short time . |
| 22 | There followed a short time for recreation , which Beth enjoyed with Cissie and Richard ; then there was the mending to do , and the tea to prepare ; afterwards , there were the children to wash and bed . |
| 23 | He graduated in 1940 and spent a short time at Pennsylvania State University before returning to UCLA to do his PhD . |
| 24 | We spent a short time discussing how Sylvia now felt about that long-ago event and whether it caused her any distress to think about it . |
| 25 | After leaving school he spent a short time in his father 's office . |
| 26 | He spent a short time in Paris , studying French surgical methods , and then returned to Liverpool and joined his father 's practice in 1858 . |
| 27 | He spent a short time in conversation with Iris , who looked at him in a way that made Melissa want to shake her . |
| 28 | Does the Prime Minister recall saying a short time ago in his personal statement — in this document from the Conservative party — that ’ if ’ Government ’ borrowing takes the strain , taxes have to go up ’ |
| 29 | It was urged that , if this construction were adopted , a solicitor would have a shorter time during which he may abstain from bringing his action for work done than the rest of Her Majesty 's subjects . |
| 30 | We did have a short time to show off whatever skills we had managed to acquire . |