Example sentences of "[prep] so [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so it is strange that Veblen should have failed to recognise the magnitude of what the fierce emulation of railroad promoters , industrialists and bankers in fact managed to achieve in North America during so short a space of time . |
| 2 | After so long a period of remorseless manufacturing decline in the UK , to hope for a reversal might seem wishful thinking . |
| 3 | After so long a period of remorseless manufacturing decline in the UK , to hope for a reversal might seem wishful thinking . |
| 4 | It is particularly impressive that she was able to win such a prestigious commendation after so short a time in journalism . |
| 5 | He also wanted to publish the next volume of the Cantos as soon as possible , in order to bolster Pound 's reputation , although he had expressed private reservations that the most recent work was not of so high a standard as the rest . |
| 6 | He had come to France ( in which he spent more than half his life as king of England ) and had , as contemporaries recognised , achieved considerable conquests , something which his predecessors had never done on that scale or within so short a period of time . |
| 7 | Wexford wondered how long since anyone had made so many damaging admissions in this office in so short a space of time . |
| 8 | It became , ‘ how can it possibly have come about in so short a period of time that so many women have become involved in politics ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Australian Unwins , sitting with the rival owners of Flokati , were concerned about a lifelessness they had detected in Upper Gumtree due to the fact that on the train their horse had been fed a restricted diet of compressed food nuts and high-grade hay and the Flokati people were cheerfully saying that on so long a stretch without exercise , good hay was best . |