Example sentences of "[adv] a [adv] short " in BNC.
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| 1 | She should maybe have heeded the lyrics of ‘ On Ilkley Moor Baht'at ’ , which I discovered , only a very short while ago , I admit , is all about recycling . |
| 2 | In practical terms , a checklist may take only a very short time to complete , providing that the teacher or therapist is familiar with the child being assessed . |
| 3 | At church the Vicar , Mr Nicolson , preached only a very short sermon . |
| 4 | The author of " The New Universal Gazetteer , " the second edition of which was published in Edinburgh in 1796 , gives only a very short piece , as might be expected , but tells us " There is only one harbour , named Lochindale , in the whole island " and says a " Fair is held on May 18th . " |
| 5 | The author of " The New Universal Gazetteer , " the second edition of which was published in Edinburgh in 1796 , gives only a very short piece , as might be expected , but tells us " There is only one harbour , named Lochindale , in the whole island " and says a " Fair is held on May 18th . " |
| 6 | His hands were careful and restrained , his mouth tender , and although only a very short while later , Cassie was to realize just how much self-control he had exerted at that moment of their first real physical contact , for those few minutes , she knew only that she was not afraid of him , nor even suspected that there was any need to be . |
| 7 | The political and social hegemony of the Austrian bourgeoisie ( Bürgertum ) came very late , very suddenly , and lasted only a very short time . |
| 8 | However , that buying policy seems to have existed for only a very short period and to have been an aberration , as indeed is Fishbane 's reign . |
| 9 | Indeed on being presented with a picture , pupils may look at it for only a very short time and give only the most cursory replies when questioned about various features . |
| 10 | At other times a teacher may wish to use only a very short sequence . |
| 11 | It 's only a very short walk down , if you walk through the shops you do n't have to go all the way down , you can actually come , just walk past that shop and go down the middle , and you come out through the car park . |
| 12 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 13 | By any reckoning , the path into the future is exceptionally perilous and uncertain for this generation , and political sociology , I fear , can at best illumine it for only a relatively short distance ahead . |
| 14 | But that is only a relatively short term thing again , and that period will consist |
| 15 | But in Dvořák 's Dumky , with its mercurial alternations of melancholy and gaiety , I did wonder if their playing was just a little short on true Slavonic temperament . |
| 16 | Ollie scooped out the money and found just a little short of l 5 |
| 17 | And on the north east it 's just a little short of where the York Scarborough railway crosses the A sixty four . |
| 18 | Now you can come and enjoy it in Europe 's very own Magic Kingdom — just a relatively short coach and ferry ride across the Channel |
| 19 | This form here it 's just a fairly short one , i could you just tick the appropriate boxes for me . |
| 20 | If I did have a siesta it was always a very short one . |
| 21 | A week or two spent in preparation is really a comparatively short time to plan the necessary changes . |