Example sentences of "[verb] a [adv] short time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is quite clear that in any examination the examiner has a very short time to spend on any individual question . |
| 2 | In what seemed a very short time the plane began to come down and bits of northern Italy could be seen below . |
| 3 | Her mother had died a very short time ago , in reality , and Jenna had been more than capable of dealing with her own well-being . |
| 4 | This year I could only stay a very short time , as I had to get out to Cliveden for a charity ball the same evening . |
| 5 | I had been given a very short time to assimilate the books of poetry and to write the review : a time-limit that would have been almost impossible for me to meet today , so much more sluggish has my mind become ; but I felt that if Eliot thought I could do the job , it was doubtless within my capacity . |
| 6 | It should be realised that the amount stocked would only have been expected to last a relatively short time . |
| 7 | It took a very short time indeed , and with every step Jenna 's trembling lessened , although she refused to think about the last few moments in the barn with Alain . |
| 8 | Disposing of Giraud took a relatively short time . |
| 9 | The addiction is to the ‘ rush ’ — an experience of great pleasure which lasts a relatively short time . |
| 10 | By fraction is meant a very short time indeed . |
| 11 | The journey , despite the distance between London and the prison , had taken a surprisingly short time . |
| 12 | But this layout seemingly only lasted a comparatively short time , before it too was swept away , together with the buildings which had survived the previous changes and the fort defences . |
| 13 | Du n no people have said like that will last a really short time or a really long time , but what 's considered a short time I know what a long time is , a long time is like sort of four months three sort of four months onwards in n it for like people our age , what would a short time be they ? |
| 14 | The Prime Minister said a very short time ago that ’ If ’ Government ’ borrowing takes the strain , taxes — not just our taxes ’ — |
| 15 | Certainly , cuckoos spend a very short time in Britain ( 12–15 weeks ) — less than any other migrant . |