Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] a short [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't turn his head to look after them and he was so still that even at a short distance they could no longer distinguish him from his surroundings . |
| 2 | Mungo could not explain why but he felt a sense of release at being out of the village , if only for a short time . |
| 3 | Some diets are not successful at all but some are , even if only for a short time . |
| 4 | His new civility did not last , but , as Daisy Yates remarked one day in the following week , it had been pleasant not to have such a right little God Almighty in Cas. , if only for a short time . |
| 5 | Well , of course this option must be open , but the needs of the women who choose to stay at home , if only for a short time , can not be ignored . |
| 6 | Freedom , if only for a short time , and she would have a chance to speak to Rose , whom she had not seen since their evening out together up West . |
| 7 | Secondly , a director is likely to be restricted by his service contract from competing with his employer at any time while employed by the company , and probably for a short period afterwards . |
| 8 | He was soon posted to England and then for a short period to Brussels before leaving the Bank in 1975 . |
| 9 | The coach then took us into the Wachau Valley for lunch at another 5-star hotel and then after a short walk through the medieval village and Durnstein Castle , we went on to the ‘ UND ’ Monastery at Krems for a wine tasting . |
| 10 | They had provided her with a local map , pin-pointing the exact location of the Château La Tour Monchauzet , and explaining she should take the Villereal road out of Issigeac , but only for a short distance . |
| 11 | In the end we all agree that AZT is an effective drug , but only for a short period . ’ |
| 12 | It seems that Gainsborough produced such works as favours for important clients , but only for a short period in his career , later preferring oil on paper for smaller portraits of this sort . |
| 13 | But they do , they get paid a lot of money but only for a short period of time . |