Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strange , she had been in Denmark for so short a time yet in those few days she had learned so much , not only about herself but about a country she had never even considered visiting before Suzie 's escapade . |
| 2 | What seemed so dreadful was that he waited so long for the Premiership , and held it for so short a time … |
| 3 | The new Act abolished the old method of arranging with creditors by a deed of composition , assignment or otherwise ‘ which has for so long a time disgraced our law ’ . |
| 4 | So much peace and plenty , for so long a time . |
| 5 | It was , wrote the best-known and most influential of them , the Abbe de Saint-Pierre , ‘ that vain Idol to which the Nations have Sacrificed so blindly , so fruitlessly , and for so long a Time , so much Blood and Treasure ’ . |
| 6 | I mean , after so long a time . |
| 7 | It is particularly impressive that she was able to win such a prestigious commendation after so short a time in journalism . |
| 8 | Despite all the obvious practical difficulties that Edward encountered in maintaining the siege , its abandonment after so short a time must raise questions about the extent of his commitment , even at this stage of the war , to the French throne . |
| 9 | ‘ You mean that when we divorce after as short a time as possible you 'll give me a lump sum ? ’ she enquired , her voice frigid . |
| 10 | Verbal presentations often fail because the speaker tries to cram too much into too short a time , or goes on for far too long . |
| 11 | I decided that I would have to get to the Butcher 's office first or at least early on in the queue so that I would be barefoot for as short a time as possible . |
| 12 | If you do give it , give it for as short a time as you can . |
| 13 | It is obviously better if trees can be out of the ground for as short a time as possible and it is much less expensive to buy bare root transplants . |
| 14 | The children of the Indians are saved , to be sold or given away as servants , or rather slaves for as long a time as the owners can make them believe themselves slaves . |
| 15 | The government was unwilling to comply within so short a time , however , because it relied upon the rural vote , and farmers had demonstrated twice in 1989 against the level of agricultural imports . |
| 16 | Hazel , a Clerk in Private Trust and Taxation , Edinburgh , will fly to the USA in June — but she won ‘ t know her final destination or what type of work she will be doing until much nearer the time . |
| 17 | One might well ask what has happened to transform the public mood from complacency to crisis in so short a time . |
| 18 | This is a tremendous response in so short a time . |
| 19 | Sceptics doubt the influence of the press , however , and especially whether it could have so much influence in so short a time . |
| 20 | Therefore , if the origin of the phenomenon is as recent as the late eighteenth century , it is difficult to explain how it could have become so geographically widespread in so short a time : it was already highly salient and overtly stigmatized by the latter half of the nineteenth century ( for some citations see Phillipps , 1984 , 136–9 ) . |
| 21 | If the interval during which he kept his eyes closed was very short , say one second , he could maintain that we could not have exchanged our places in so short a time and invoke the laws of physics in support of his view . |
| 22 | So much change , in so short a time ; Pete felt as if he 'd aged more in ten weeks than in the ten years that had gone before . |
| 23 | How could she have possibly imagined how dramatically her feelings towards him would have changed in so short a time ? |
| 24 | Could one fall in love in so short a time ? |
| 25 | Rarely can there have been so many upheavals in the landscape in so short a time . |
| 26 | The authors are indeed to be congratulated on producing such a clear and authoritative treatment of their subject in so short a time . |
| 27 | ‘ My collections , I am happy to say ’ he wrote , despite his own and prince 's fears , ‘ have all arrived in safety and I can now scarcely tell how so large a mass was got together in so short a time . ’ |
| 28 | Although gossip was that Churchill had been tempted , given the mighty scale of Germany 's achievements in so short a time , the iron returned to his soul and he steamrollered furiously through his doubting Cabinet . |
| 29 | In contrast , the to infinitive could not be used in the following two sentences , where reference is made to nonce happenings : ( 119 ) I never knew anyone do so much in so short a time . |
| 30 | In so short a time she 'd forgotten just how big he was . |