Example sentences of "[prep] so [adv] [art] [noun sg] of " 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 | 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 . |
5 | Wexford wondered how long since anyone had made so many damaging admissions in this office in so short a space of time . |
6 | 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 ? ’ |
7 | 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 . |