Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] so [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much animosity in so short a call . |
| 2 | Sceptics doubt the influence of the press , however , and especially whether it could have so much influence in so short a time . |
| 3 | One might well ask what has happened to transform the public mood from complacency to crisis in so short a time . |
| 4 | At the same time as this was happening teachers demanded to be treated ‘ as professionals ’ , scornfully ignoring the view , repeatedly expressed , that the disruption of children 's education for so long a period was hardly the behaviour that one might expect from members of a ‘ profession ’ . |
| 5 | An engraving of Allen by Wenceslaus Hollar [ q.v. ] ( from a lost painting ) is one of the few portraits of an English artisan of so early a period , and bears witness to his fame . |
| 6 | Although the plan offers an extremely good guarantee on so high a number of matches it is really only suitable for syndicates using Littlewoods and Vernons although it is ideal on Zetters as a single entry . |
| 7 | This is a tremendous response in so short a time . |
| 8 | Despite all the obvious practical difficulties that Edward encountered in maintaining the siege , its abandonment after so short a time must raise questions about the extent of his commitment , even at this stage of the war , to the French throne . |
| 9 | The two archbishops thought that Ramsey would be an excellent bishop but it was not right , it was bad for the Church as well as for the study of divinity , to take him out of the Cambridge chair after so short a tenure . |
| 10 | It is quite remarkable that from so early an age with so short a track record he should have inspired such an industry of interest . |
| 11 | But while a majority of informed public opinion , the target of persistent lobbying over so long a period , moved decisively towards outright abolition , fortified by the anomalous decisions resulting from the 1957 Homicide Act , the views of the general public continued to be hostile and mostly out of sympathy with the prevailing climate at Westminster and Whitehall . |
| 12 | Indeed , it would be difficult to cover both a sick man and a dying man in so short a space . |
| 13 | The authors are indeed to be congratulated on producing such a clear and authoritative treatment of their subject in so short a time . |
| 14 | Probably because there might have been an echo of the headmaster in so public a request . |
| 15 | Could one fall in love in so short a time ? |
| 16 | Rarely can there have been so many upheavals in the landscape in so short a time . |
| 17 | All examples show similar characteristics ; they are generally stone vaulted — an unusual feature in so early a period and rare in southern Europe — the majority have cupolas supported on squinches and/or intersecting barrel vaults ; the stonework is solid but crude ; ornament generally includes interlacing in bands of carving on stone borders and the patterns are made up from circles , diamonds or zig-zags — the interlacing is like a prototype of the later Romanesque basket work patterns . |
| 18 | It is particularly impressive that she was able to win such a prestigious commendation after so short a time in journalism . |
| 19 | What was happening to them that this awareness had reached such a pitch in so short a time ? |
| 20 | Wexford wondered how long since anyone had made so many damaging admissions in this office in so short a space of time . |