Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [adv] [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 | The result was another memorable moment in Too Long a Winter . |
4 | One might well ask what has happened to transform the public mood from complacency to crisis in so short a time . |
5 | The researchers were therefore able to show small changes attributable to natural selection in as short a time as two months , a truly remarkable discovery . |
6 | With the independent network still smarting over BSkyB 's controversial £304 million capture of coverage of the new Premier League it was a second severe setback in just over a week . |
7 | It is designed to test the breadth of the student 's knowledge in as wide a range of skills as possible , as they will shortly be facing the even greater demands of the real world outside college . |
8 | This is a tremendous response in so short a time . |
9 | Too much horror in too short a space of time . |
10 | ‘ Anthony Stewart comes to trial in just over a week 's time . ’ |
11 | The next payment is therefore due for collection in just over a week 's time . |
12 | Indeed , it would be difficult to cover both a sick man and a dying man in so short a space . |
13 | If your plan is to move ahead quickly and gain promotion in as short a time as possible , you would probably fare best in an area where the shortage of suitably qualified staff is most acute . |
14 | The authors are indeed to be congratulated on producing such a clear and authoritative treatment of their subject in so short a time . |
15 | Probably because there might have been an echo of the headmaster in so public a request . |
16 | The premature termination of breastfeeding that typically occurs when conception follows a birth in too short a time contributes to inadequate nutrition of the weaned child and explains , at least in part , the morbidity ( and mortality ) levels among children in the second year of life . |
17 | Could one fall in love in so short a time ? |
18 | So dead bodies are hygienically whisked away by undertakers within a very short ti me of the person dying , funerals are conducted in twenty minutes at a busy crematorium with a bizarre queue of other funerals waiting in an approach way , and grieving people are expected to be back at their employment in as short a time as possible . |
19 | A lot of people still remember Her Ladyship , the little white cow which was featured such a lot in Too Long a Winter , and so do I , of course . |
20 | I 'm twenty , and I shall be a fully trained nurse in just over a year , and I 'm not as innocent as you seem to imagine . |
21 | Rarely can there have been so many upheavals in the landscape in so short a time . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | The first will join the fleet in just over a year . |
24 | What was happening to them that this awareness had reached such a pitch in so short a time ? |
25 | Wexford wondered how long since anyone had made so many damaging admissions in this office in so short a space of time . |