Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [adv] short time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He quit after a fairly short time — I think he may have done it for only two terms . |
| 2 | Great promotional activity until the financial slowdown of 1772 secured in an astonishingly short time a linking of the major English river systems : the Severn , Thames , Great Ouse , Trent , Humber and Mersey . |
| 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 | However , in this case , it would not be necessary to determine that all the quanta came from the same direction : it would be enough to observe that they all arrived within a very short time interval to be reasonably confident that they were coming from the same burst . |
| 5 | The vogue of the Klan lasted for a relatively short time , but at its height , it may have had five million members . |
| 6 | The following account summarizes the factual information I obtained about the prison , as well as the general impressions I gained during the necessarily short time I was able to spend inside it . |