Example sentences of "[verb] for [art] [adv] short time " in BNC.
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| 1 | HIV is a very weak virus and can only survive for a very short time when it is exposed to air outside the human body . |
| 2 | Anyhow , it had been going for a very short time , not very satisfactory , because none of us really were very successful with our machine , and then a … messenger came in to say that a [ radio ] taxi driver had come into No. 10 to say he 's heard everything going on in his taxi in Whitehall . |
| 3 | From a therapeutic aspect , penicillin was marvellous because it cured many dangerous bacterial infections , but it was tiresome because it was inactive by mouth ( it was destroyed by the acidity of the stomach contents ) , it acted for a very short time ( it was rapidly excreted by the kidneys ) and so was of little value unless given by injection at intervals of not longer than 3 hours , and because , after a time , the normal processes of evolution led to the appearance of resistant strains of the microbes which had previously been sensitive to penicillin . |
| 4 | Oddly enough , his father , whom Peter had known for a much shorter time , was quite distinct in his memory , right down to the smell of Palmolive shaving cream and Gold Leaf cigarettes . |
| 5 | The vogue of the Klan lasted for a relatively short time , but at its height , it may have had five million members . |
| 6 | Laboratory experiments can only last for a relatively short time , and have to be held within the confines of the laboratory . |