Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] short [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After many years of almost continuous work , broken only by a short honeymoon in 1833 , Gooch 's health failed and he was taken ill in 1847 at his London office . |
| 2 | Whatever the impact of the Gulf , America 's deteriorating economy suggests that the dollar could fall further in the short run . |
| 3 | The era of class confrontation in Britain 's coalfields had been confined mainly to the short period 1910–26 . |
| 4 | When a particular task requires expatriates to work overseas for a short period of time , it is common for employers to hire people with the necessary skills on short , fixed-term contracts . |
| 5 | An unpretentious batsman and an excellent field near the wicket , his towering height — he was 6 ft. 5 ins. tall , and delivered the ball , it was claimed , from a height of eight feet — enabled him both to bowl effortlessly off a short run and to produce stinging lift off a good length . |
| 6 | If all the etch-resist is completely stripped away in a short period of time , then perhaps the whole board has been exposed at some stage to too much UV light . |
| 7 | THE tragedy of the British Civil War will be commemorated tomorrow in a short play at Ellesmere Port Library . |
| 8 | Its best feature is Creag Meagaidh , 3700 feet , with a nature reserve on its lower slopes ; unfortunately , this giant is out of sight from the road but is seen well after a short climb on a path from Aberarder Farm , worth doing for a view of the craggy east face of the mountain . |
| 9 | Of course , Doyle 's success brought imitators by the score , all writing then in the short story form . |
| 10 | I even got a job for one of my half-sisters at a place in Lunedale , but she did n't settle to the job like me and wanted to go home after a short while . |
| 11 | The eye is immediately drawn upwards by a short flight of stairs and the brilliant vista of the glazed atrium , crisscrossed by two oak-and-steel walkways , at different angles . |
| 12 | The tunnel to the right turned left after a short distance , while the tunnel to the left led to a crossroads . |
| 13 | I 'm going abroad for a short time … ’ |
| 14 | This may not prove to be a serious problem , but having it happen twice in a short period of time makes me wonder . |
| 15 | You may object that I 'm only describing the kind of action that occurs in whodunnit stories — but look again at the short fictions that have moved you . |
| 16 | They dispersed quietly after a short meeting on top of the city wall , over Magazine Gate , which again was addressed by Hume . |
| 17 | Forming the intention to adopt beliefs only when they correspond to reality postpones the settlement of belief : we are forced to adopt rules which , while they are guaranteed to reveal reality to us in the long run , are not guaranteed to do so in the short run . |
| 18 | Monetarists also recognize that the demand for money can shift unpredictably in the short run with changing expectations of prices , interest rates and exchange rates . |
| 19 | He did well to hold off the challenge , battling bravely to last home by a short head . |
| 20 | Sexy , swept back curls contrast well with a short back and sides . |
| 21 | His long hands hung clumsily from the short sleeves of his jacket , like a scarecrow 's stuffed gloves from its straw body . |
| 22 | We were soon alongside the small vessel as she pitched uncomfortably in the short Channel seas at about six knots , and we requested her in our usual polite manner to divert into Folkestone for a customs examination . |
| 23 | And in fact in the early stages I got one man working for me and er I went back into teaching again for a short time to help out at a school where the the the teacher was ill , and I was teaching in the morning and then doing two-man jobs in the afternoon , and he was doing one man jobs in the morning . |
| 24 | Regrettably this consists only of a short description of the mechanical working of the lift , taken from Thomas 's own description , giving no assessment of the lift 's success in use , despite the fact that it appeared six months after the lift 's entry into service . |
| 25 | The Government warned that it would apply only for a short period . |
| 26 | This results in overlapping : thus , some realizations of /Ε/; are like /a/ , and vice versa , and this applies particularly to the short vowel environments ( following voiceless stop , following sonorant + voiceless obstruent ) . |
| 27 | A spokeswoman for the Guides Association said yesterday : ‘ She worked here for a short while and I suppose it was just a job to her . ’ |
| 28 | The energy of the falling grains may not be absorbed in rebounding or in starting saltation by impact , but may be used in disturbing a number of grains , which are driven forward for a short distance on the surface . |
| 29 | Having got to Bristol , he went home for a short holiday and died . |
| 30 | All went well for a short while , but then his childhood respiratory problems returned . |