Example sentences of "[adj] space of time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , in that brief space of time I turned up the flame . |
| 2 | The only sensible response to this , Neil decided ruefully , was to keep hold of the cane , and continue to threaten the bully with it , and for a very short space of time they circled around one another — neither man , it soon became plain , really wishing to do more than threaten . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ In that relatively short space of time we have established ourselves as a vital source of providing banking services to local people . |
| 5 | That was until Ronnie McFall came to Shamrock Park and in a short space of time we have won the League two years on the trot , runner-up last season and challenging strongly again this season . |
| 6 | In the short space of time it took him to walk across the room arm-in-arm with Mme de Ratho , he thought he saw … . |
| 7 | Very short space of time it 's gone quite a distance . |
| 8 | Q , W , E , R become C , D , E , F and S , D , F become G , A and B. Slightly awkward to start with but within a very short space of time you perform these operation without looking . |
| 9 | In April 1962 he wrote ‘ Blowin' in the Wind ’ , and within a short space of time he had been adopted as the spokesman of the civil-rights movement . |
| 10 | In a very short space of time she would have her feet under the table and those huge jaws would be munching their way into the breast . |
| 11 | In the short space of time she had been in the ATS she had become aware how easily she attracted the opposite sex , a power which did not appear to have been conferred in anything like the same degree on her contemporaries . |
| 12 | ‘ So within a short space of time she lost her baby and permanently lost her ability to have another baby with serious and lasting consequences to her health and eventually fatal consequences for her marriage . ’ |
| 13 | In that space of time you 're going to build up hatred . |
| 14 | In the same space of time she had married , embarked on a new and totally alien job , had a baby , celebrated her twenty-first birthday , and then had a second child — all momentous events in anyone 's life , without the other pressures she was having to cope with . |