Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a short time [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A ( s.a. 755 ) Beornred succeeded to the kingdom on the death of Aethelbald but held it only for a short time and unhappily . |
| 2 | Because we knew that the headmaster of the Scuola Medie Inferiori , where I was now in my last year , was not in a position to punish us if we did not appear for lessons on demonstration days , many of us took part only for a short time and then went home . |
| 3 | One pauper was locked up for a short time and when let out he was very quiet and all of them have been so since . ’ |
| 4 | If your engine is fitted with a viscous coupled cooling fan and the viscous unit is faulty after running the engine fast for a short time and then slowing down the fan continues to spin freely and even speeds up . |
| 5 | So marriages break up , the man becomes rootless and homeless , and can either end up in prison again within a short time or else drift into destitution . |