Example sentences of "[prep] a few short " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could have told you this at the height of his reputation , just as I could have predicted his downfall after a few short years in the limelight . |
| 2 | With the exception of a few short magazine contributions and the revision of the serial The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved for publication in book form , it brought to an end a career in prose fiction which had seen the publication of 14 novels and some 40 stories , and earned Hardy a place among the greatest 19th-century novelists . |
| 3 | A Major or a Kinnock may work for decades in the hope of a few short years at the pinnacle of our political system . |
| 4 | And she had never needed Josey 's encouragement more than she had just a matter of a few short weeks ago . |
| 5 | It has been an astonishing transformation in opinions and attitudes , within the course of a few short weeks . |
| 6 | Inside , the rooms are light and panelled with elegant pedimented overdoors , and it is sad to think that the full splendour of Bullen Reynes 's house was only enjoyed by his son and his family for a few short years ; the bulk of it burned down in 1704 . |
| 7 | He had blue eyes and his head was bare except for a few short grey hairs . |
| 8 | He was not , in fact , an exponent of the martial arts , but for a few short but character-forming weeks during a university summer vacation he had boxed a kangaroo called Cobber in a travelling circus . |
| 9 | I 'm just here for a few short months . |
| 10 | On ‘ Guts ’ and ‘ Fear ( Is A Man 's Best Friend ) ’ , however , the mood is one of aggression , especially at the end of each song which is deliberately hammered into oblivion with a few short , shocking strokes . |
| 11 | The Jammu and Kashmir state administration imposed and maintained an around-the-clock curfew in the Kashmir valley on April 6-21 , with a few short relaxations to allow people to obtain essential supplies . |
| 12 | ‘ It is odd that they said so many things to identify themselves within a few short sentences . ’ |
| 13 | And Judson in Burma burying his whole family within a few short years of getting there . |
| 14 | In a few short weeks the scoops had torn a channel twenty feet wide from end to end , ripping the backbone out of Adventurers ' Fen … |
| 15 | In a profile of Denis Law written in 1962 the late great Scottish journalist John Rafferty summarised the '60s in a few short condemnatory words . |
| 16 | In a few short sentences Quinn explained what he had done . |
| 17 | Had she also changed in a few short months ? |
| 18 | It is impossible to convey to an outsider in a few short words the hothouse emotional atmosphere of such an establishment , with its all-too-conscientiously suppressed sexuality , and the consequent hysteria , or just plain silliness . |
| 19 | The milk sprayed into the bucket in a few short spurts and Piladu pushed the animal forward , let two heavily pregnant ewes push past him and reached out to grasp the wool of a lamb that was trying to jump the rail where the Captain and the Brigadier were leaning . |
| 20 | In a few short months he had changed , his hair was greyer , his face more drawn and the gold Albert hung loosely around his once corpulent stomach . |
| 21 | Attractive as they are , specialised feeders such as these will be doomed to starvation and death in a few short weeks in the aquarium . |
| 22 | It seemed impossible that in a few short days her life could have changed so dramatically and fundamentally , and she told Rohan so . |
| 23 | The foliage in the park was turning to burnished gold and Rachel knew that in a few short weeks the temperature would drop , the leaves would fall and once again her favourite time of year would be over . |
| 24 | In a few short verses not only did that celebrated pair dispose of our continental neighbours , but they also made it clear that the Irish , the Scots and the Welsh were suspect too . |