Example sentences of "[vb past] a short time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen entered a short time later , looking anxious . |
| 2 | It seems clear , however that the initial cancellation only added a short time to the eventual arrival of the ambulance . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He graduated in 1940 and spent a short time at Pennsylvania State University before returning to UCLA to do his PhD . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | After leaving school he spent a short time in his father 's office . |
| 8 | He spent a short time in Paris , studying French surgical methods , and then returned to Liverpool and joined his father 's practice in 1858 . |
| 9 | He spent a short time in conversation with Iris , who looked at him in a way that made Melissa want to shake her . |
| 10 | Two of the men died at the scene and their three colleagues were rushed to hospital , where one died a short time later . |
| 11 | He died a short time later . |
| 12 | Of the rest Matthew Cooper played as a fledgling in the All Blacks ' scamper through Japan in 1987 ; Jon Preston had one game in the World Cup last year ; Kevin Schuler appeared briefly as a replacement in France in 1990 ; and Graham Dowd had been the reserve hooker for the World Cup and the home series against the World XV and managed a short time on the field when Richard Loe was injured in the second half of the First Test against Ireland . |
| 13 | The safety mattress took a shorter time to reach a lower maximum temperature — 84°C — and formed only 50–3 cubic metres of smoke . |
| 14 | Yes er he eventually er I in fact spoke to a Detective Inspector er at the police station er he informed me that er Detective Constable had a good knowledge of these persons and I therefore instructed that er D C make contact with me which he did a short time later that evening . |
| 15 | The Prime Minister departed a short time later with the Ministers of Transport and Energy escorted by Lord Hampshire . |
| 16 | THE majority community is sick and tired of hearing how a nationalist area was saturated with the security forces who departed a short time before loyalist paramilitaries entered to commit murder . |
| 17 | Pakistan , which had a short time before recognized Azerbaijan 's independence , recognized the independence of the Central Asian republics and of the Russian Federation on Dec. 20 , following a three-week visit to the Soviet Union by the Minister of State for the Economy which ended on Dec. 18 . |
| 18 | At the time I had no other reason to come home , but when I heard my mother only had a short time left it was the only place I wanted to be . ’ |
| 19 | Sue Owen , director of nursing , said : ‘ He had a short time away with his consultant 's permission . |
| 20 | Police said a short time ago that a thirty one year old local man had been arrested . |
| 21 | Mr Howes said a short time later , Alan began to sway . |