Example sentences of "[indef pn] in [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | What gives you this impression ? 6 The teacher set them to do something in a short time . |
| 2 | Mr John Rennilson , the county planning officer , said : ‘ Unless we can achieve something in a short time the inevitable will happen on March 31 . ’ |
| 3 | Devised by the University of Minnesota , it is a way of short cutting the routes through Internet which can also take advantage of using other host computers which are less busy ( e.g. one in a different time zone ) . |
| 4 | ‘ If it helps , his fiancée has not exactly endeared herself to anyone in the short time that she 's been here . |
| 5 | She had n't felt so pleased by anything in a long time . |