Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [art] short time " in BNC.

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1 A single-shell wooden coffin disintegrated in a shorter time , thereby releasing space within the soil for further deposits , to the financial advantage of the incumbent .
2 When Lyall left Upton Park , McGiven served for a short time at Chelsea as youth coach before reforming a partnership in Suffolk .
3 After leaving the magazine , Caroline worked for a short time in the Cardiff newsroom .
4 This is a little like kitchen foil , but is plastic based and inert ( kitchen foil disintegrates after a short time ) .
5 Proof came within a short time when in November 1983 more than five hundred deaf people from all over the country joined other disabled groups at Westminster in an impressive lobby in support of a Private Member 's Bill , introduced by Robert Wareing MP , which sought to make discrimination against all disabled people illegal .
6 However , many excess mortgage allowance schemes run for a shorter time , for instance , for five or seven years .
7 They do n't feel right and I 've heard that the rubber grips on them have a tendency to rot after a short time .
8 Herodotus was able to establish some kind of time-sequence for the two centuries before his time , but he was a more diffuse writer than Thucydides , who was concerned with many events occurring in a shorter time interval .
9 External reliability can be measured by comparing the test scores obtained by one tester working with the same group of children on two separate occasions separated by a short time interval .
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