Example sentences of "in that short [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole truth , nothing but the unbelievable truth , was manifest in that short exchange . |
| 2 | It was as if in that short distance from the Upper East Side she had crossed a magic dividing line into another country . |
| 3 | If he had n't been put into the jail , I do n't know what would have been the result today but … before he even had his jail sentence served , applications were coming in from town an in that short space of time about 1966 , our church more than doubled in membership and in churches . |
| 4 | Yet once he had started he applied his mind and industry to it with such vigour that he had mastered more books in that short space than any child before or since . |
| 5 | It says that , in that short space of time , 317 historic settlements had been affected , 241 heavily or lightly , while 76 had been destroyed or burned down ; 358 individual monuments registered or filed as cultural treasures , including 26 museums , seven archives and 13 library buildings , had been damaged . |
| 6 | One will stay with you all the time watching what he 's doing and the other one goes upstairs , while he 's left alone , and in that short space of time they can actually . |
| 7 | In that short interval we managed to grab a couple of milk crates and a door that we found at the edge of a building site . |
| 8 | It is only three years since she took up painting dogs as a profession , but in that short time she has been kept constantly in work . |
| 9 | In that short time , though , he sealed the love affair with a sensational goal . |
| 10 | Coleridge 's first meeting with Tom Poole lasted less than a day , but in that short time Coleridge was expansive both on the subject of himself and his plans for the future . |
| 11 | Huy wondered , as he walked away , what Merymose would do if in that short time no killer had been found . |
| 12 | It 's really come to the fore and has been seen as a political force for a much shorter time than , say , a hundred years , and I am wonder if , in that short time , because that 's how we can judge things , I mean presumably you were aware of the way women were treated before the Women 's Movement started raising it 's profile , and you 're aware of the way things are now , do you see much change ? |
| 13 | George Bush appointed Justice Souter , to political conservatives ' dismay , in the summer of 1990 , in that short period when it looked as if he might be a great president . |
| 14 | In that short period , a profit of £5m , tax-free , has gone to secret investors , and Telecom has been landed with a lemon . |
| 15 | In that short phrase is poignancy from the abyss of his soul . |