Example sentences of "[noun] only [art] short time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He died of a stroke only a short time after Mamma left him . ’ |
| 2 | Richard Cunningham , a botanist who had been trained at Kew by William Townsend Aiton , elder brother of John Townsend Aiton ( who had trained Gould as a gardener at Windsor Castle ) had been murdered by Aborigines only a short time before Gould 's departure while collecting on an expedition along the Murray River . |
| 3 | Radio was , as we have seen , put under direct Government control only a short time after independence . |
| 4 | The wet plaster smell and the white dust on the cobbles underfoot indicated that rubble had been cleared from the yard only a short time before . |
| 5 | The ‘ Illustrious ’ had been subjected to vicious bombing only a short time previously , and the defending fighters had been battered by swarms of Me109s and Macchis . |
| 6 | Secretary , who stayed in office only a short time before handing over to James Muir , who served until 1905 . |