Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for short " in BNC.
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| 1 | The collective community charge is paid by landlords of some properties where people normally only stay for short periods . |
| 2 | It is therefore usually reserved for short pieces or episodes . |
| 3 | The result , it now appears , was that local administrators , with important defensive budgets to collect and administer , took advantage of the experience thus gained to develop their own powers in particular when , over a period of some decades , taxes originally levied for short periods came to be collected for longer and longer periods , until they became all but permanently established as part of the regular income of a town or city . |
| 4 | We have reduced that period to five weeks , which means that millions of patients now wait for shorter periods than they did under a Labour Government . |
| 5 | Its Presidents now served for short terms , and were always very distinguished men of science . |
| 6 | Gliders are often left for short periods with tyres on the wing-tip only . |
| 7 | The receipts and payments method is commonly employed for shorter time periods , say up to one month . |