Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] short time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm going abroad for a short time … ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is at the larva stage of their development when boring and feeding of the grubs takes place that the damage is caused because the adult beetles do not eat and they live only for a short time . |
| 4 | Nevertheless the national curriculum in maths , science and English was introduced in 1989 and the teachers have complained bitterly of the short time available for training and of the meagre resources devoted to it — £47.5 million for training in content and £33.1 million for preparing teachers for the new tests and assessment . |
| 5 | You scoff at me and my ‘ one ’ man friend , you who have so many , but dear girl I have learnt more in the short time of my friendship with Edward , more of the world , of men as distinct from women , and man as an individual than in all my life I have learnt before . |
| 6 | ‘ Because I 'm working here for a short time . |