Example sentences of "[coord] in a very [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ortega announced on Nov. 8 that a total of 5,000 officers would be retired in order to bring the full complement of the People 's Sandinista Army ( EPS ) down to 28,000 " immediately or in a very short time " . |
| 2 | And in a very short time James Sayers had constructed a continuously pumped CW klystron operating at about 20 kV anode voltage . |
| 3 | The king had his attendants with him , and in a very short time they overpowered and killed Gowrie and his brother , whose bodies were hanged , drawn and quartered , the quarters being displayed at Edinburgh , Perth , Dundee and Stirling . |
| 4 | To her astonishment , he nodded curtly , and in a very short time they arrived at her flat . |
| 5 | Those behind ran into those in front , some tried to crowd past , and in a very short time the result was , as Nikos had forecast , a shambles . |
| 6 | They may not have thought of it as expertise , but when people said to me a particular ward is dirty , I went and looked at it , and in a very short time , within about ten minutes , that ward had got a massive clean-up team in there , that 's the sort of thing that I felt was useful . |