Example sentences of "[prep] so short a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Even so it is strange that Veblen should have failed to recognise the magnitude of what the fierce emulation of railroad promoters , industrialists and bankers in fact managed to achieve in North America during so short a space of time . |
| 2 | The notes refer to other dancers representing handmaidens , a bird and winds : rather complex for so short a work . |
| 3 | She was blonde and doll-faced , but her blue eyes gave the impression that she 'd just about seen everything , and rather more than was healthy for so short a life . |
| 4 | Taskopruzade includes in his account , however , between Molla Husrev 's appointments on the death of Hizir Bey and his departure for Bursa , a considerable amount of material more or less related to Molla Husrev 's activities in these capacities , enough to make it improbable in the extreme that he held the offices for so short a period . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | What seemed so dreadful was that he waited so long for the Premiership , and held it for so short a time … |
| 7 | The two archbishops thought that Ramsey would be an excellent bishop but it was not right , it was bad for the Church as well as for the study of divinity , to take him out of the Cambridge chair after so short a tenure . |
| 8 | It is particularly impressive that she was able to win such a prestigious commendation after so short a time in journalism . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is quite remarkable that from so early an age with so short a track record he should have inspired such an industry of interest . |
| 11 | He had come to France ( in which he spent more than half his life as king of England ) and had , as contemporaries recognised , achieved considerable conquests , something which his predecessors had never done on that scale or within so short a period of time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Wexford wondered how long since anyone had made so many damaging admissions in this office in so short a space of time . |
| 14 | One might well ask what has happened to transform the public mood from complacency to crisis in so short a time . |
| 15 | This is a tremendous response in so short a time . |
| 16 | Sceptics doubt the influence of the press , however , and especially whether it could have so much influence in so short a time . |
| 17 | This was the Wasp ’ that stung twice when 99 Spitfires were delivered to Malta in so short a period . |
| 18 | It became , ‘ how can it possibly have come about in so short a period of time that so many women have become involved in politics ? ’ |
| 19 | So much animosity in so short a call . |
| 20 | Never had so many children developed weak bladders in so short a period . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | How could she have possibly imagined how dramatically her feelings towards him would have changed in so short a time ? |
| 25 | Eudoxus initially is shocked by this possibility : ‘ Is it possible that any should so far grow out of frame that they should in so short a space quite forget their country and their own names ? ’ . |
| 26 | Could one fall in love in so short a time ? |
| 27 | Rarely can there have been so many upheavals in the landscape in so short a time . |
| 28 | The authors are indeed to be congratulated on producing such a clear and authoritative treatment of their subject in so short a time . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |