Example sentences of "[art] few [noun pl] short " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looks round for escape from this man who is obviously a few co-ordinates short of a bearing , and starts to back away slowly . |
| 2 | Remember the dice will always add at least 2″ to your estimate , and can add up to 10″ , so you should aim a few inches short of your target . |
| 3 | The rent cheque was , to my surprise , a few pounds short of the amount I was actually paying — certain deductions had been made for lighting and other odd things that were technically included in my monthly rent . |
| 4 | SAVE FACE THE SAVE FACE/Lemon Fund has closed with £94,445 banked , only a few pounds short of the money we were required to pay Jason Donovan in settlement of the libel action he brought against us earlier this year . |
| 5 | Three days into our trek we were only a few hours short of the first Zanskari hamlet . |
| 6 | He is desperate to receive fan mail at the following address : Please do not enclose an SAE for a reply as Old Fishfinger 's dictionary is a few letters short of an alphabet . |
| 7 | He is drunk , although a few stages short of rat-arsed . |
| 8 | In no time at all we were standing on a huge patch of snow at the summit of a mountain only a few feet short of a Munro . |
| 9 | From the top , the views south are awesome , proving the nonsense of ignoring a mountain just because it falls a few feet short of Munro status . |
| 10 | By the power of Numbskull , Jason , thou truly art a few Brontoburgers short of a picnic ! |
| 11 | And so what if her dentures are a few molars short of the set . |
| 12 | Though it was quieter now , Ruth walked forward with trepidation , stopping a few yards short of it . |
| 13 | To avoid being unfair or unjustified , we will instruct the company to terminate Tramway No. 10 a few yards short of the junction . ’ |
| 14 | He walked down the quay without looking back , but he must have known I was watching him for he stopped a few yards short of his car and very ostentatiously took the incriminating chart from his jacket pocket . |
| 15 | Sadly , as television interviews all too clearly show , most footballers from other teams are monosyllabic in speech and a few yards short of a goal in the brain department . |
| 16 | A few days short of his fifteenth birthday , Gert attempted suicide , cutting his wrist and jumping from a third-floor window . |
| 17 | It was here in Chambers Street that Benjamin and Elizabeth Titford were living — probably , we may guess , as guests of brother Thomas at no. 11 — when they took their little son for baptism at St Mary Whitechapel in the March of 1809 , a few days short of his first birthday . |
| 18 | The Arts : A few peas short of a majority ? |
| 19 | For others it is sufficient to look or act like a gouger by being rough-looking and dirty or disrespectful to and disliking the police , ‘ giving lip ’ and swearing , coming from ‘ a problem family ’ and being of low intelligence ( ‘ not all there ’ , ‘ air getting in ’ , ‘ not right ’ , ‘ a few bricks short of a full load ’ ) . |
| 20 | Though , come to think of it , anyone who goes rushing around with a child or , worse , a straw bale on their shoulders must be a few bricks short of a stable . |
| 21 | He was a few weeks short of his fiftieth birthday , a somewhat elderly junior minister . |
| 22 | It remained his seat for a few months short of thirty years . |