Example sentences of "space [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a short space of time referrals were regularly coming in . |
| 2 | All regular steel pegs rot and become unsafe and then unusable in a relatively short space of time . |
| 3 | Wexford wondered how long since anyone had made so many damaging admissions in this office in so short a space of time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Cooke needs a return of the effervescence that earlier in the year made him England number one , English national champion and Commonwealth champion all in a short space of time . |
| 6 | The whole flat , and the garden , within a very short space of time , was wired for sound and you would come in , perhaps in the middle of the night , and fall flat on your face over and leads and God knows what . |
| 7 | That left a large space of time on Saturday where there was little possibility of establishing that Peter Yeo had been where he said he was . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Within the shortest space of time , they were walking into the lounge of an hotel that had seen better days but was still surprisingly well patronised ; by a variety of habitués , mostly male , and all , whether uniformed or civilian , contriving to give the place an air of distinction . |
| 10 | One matter which is viewed as significant is a short space of time between the provocation and the killing , and there are some judicial statements which treat this as a matter of law : the loss of self-control must , it is sometimes held , be ‘ sudden and temporary ’ . |
| 11 | If he had n't been put into the jail , I do n't know what would have been the result today but … before he even had his jail sentence served , applications were coming in from town an in that short space of time about 1966 , our church more than doubled in membership and in churches . |
| 12 | She 's only 21 and she 's crammed a lot into a very short space of time . ’ |
| 13 | Given the political will , a primitive nationalism can be generated by governments in a remarkably short space of time , certainly in less than a generation . |
| 14 | One vulture sighting carrion below unintentionally informs all others of its availability by swooping downwards , and thus dozens of vultures arrive at the scene of an animal kill in a very short space of time . |
| 15 | Whereas it hath been represented to us , upon the oaths of several of our trusty and well-beloved booksellers , that certain journeyman taylors , shoemakers , barbers , Spitaldfields-weavers [ sic ] , and other handicraftsmen , and that certain apprentices , shopmen , &c. have assembled in certain clubs , called Spouting-clubs , and , having there intoxicated themselves with porter and poetry , have presumed to make rhymes , and discharge them on the Public , under the title of ‘ Squires and Honourables , &c. &c. to the great annoyance of said Public , and of us , the said Reviewers ; WE do hereby ordain and decree that … [ everyone ] so offending in future , shall , for every such first offence , be chained to the compter , for a space , not exceeding twelve , nor less than six days ; and … for every such second offence , be not only chained to the compter for the said space of time ( more or less ) but be obliged to wear bob-wigs , and flapped hats without girdle or buckle , for the space of six months . |
| 16 | Pilgrims come now in their millions — two million by air in a very short space of time . |
| 17 | He died as active as ever and , although only forty-five , had already crammed more into that space of time than most people manage in a far longer span . |
| 18 | The stitching can go rotten in a very short space of time and remember when you start the cross country course , ride with confidence or do not start ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Despite the Peacocks ' less than perfect performances Chapman 's achievement in two years was no less remarkable than that at Northampton in the same space of time . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , in that brief space of time I turned up the flame . |
| 22 | Such catastrophic events , he believes , are more likely to be due to the receipt of a considerable volume of rainfall in a short space of time on to soils which are already saturated , as occurs during the monsoon season . |
| 23 | The raw copy which floods in from many sources is ‘ tasted ’ , selected , sub-edited and , in a remarkably short space of time , some of it appears on the printed page . |
| 24 | Chopping and changing your behaviour within a short space of time is likely to confuse and be unhelpful . |
| 25 | In other words the issue is whether there has been a gradual process of change based on clear continuities with the past or an accumulation of changes in a relatively short space of time which has fundamentally altered the structures of the UK state . |
| 26 | In these few words we may only point to the kaleidoscope of enthusiasm and activity by secondees that has been generated across the country in such a short space of time . |
| 27 | One example will suffice ; Walpole-Bond records , with reference to Wheatears , that during the period from the final years of the 18th to the early ones of the 19th centuries an inhabitant of East Dean ‘ once during that short time was thought to have taken nearly a hundred dozen ’ , and another ‘ near Eastbourne procured eighty-four dozen in the same short space of time ’ . |
| 28 | In a short space of time the crept workings in Wallsend , Wellington , Percy Main , Bebburn , Jarrow , Elswich and Berwell were all reopened . |
| 29 | Perhaps it is because a predator is able to find and eat relatively large numbers of aposematic prey in a short space of time , and that the high initial rate of feeding produces a more powerful reinforcement than a greater number of prey eaten over a longer period . |
| 30 | Within a short space of time , the laboratory had ceased to be involved in the launch vehicles , themselves ( so making ‘ Jet Propulsion ’ a highly anomalous title ) , and had become connected to the newly-formed NASA empire . |