Example sentences of "in a very [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can not do everything in a very limited time , so we must select what is essential on the fairest and most comprehensive basis possible : that is , what we think may help pupils to cope with , and make decisions about , things which happen to them — at any age and at any level ; and also what will encourage responsibility concerning the effects they themselves have on others . |
| 2 | That 's what poets were , y'know , in a very distant time . ’ |
| 3 | Then the man spoke his first word in a very long time as he looked at Beth panting away . |
| 4 | That he did n't manage to cover the remaining 146 miles does n't really matter , for his peregrination from Battery Park to Times Square makes one of the most intriguing accounts of an asphalt jungle to have appeared in a very long time . |
| 5 | Pleased and strangely girlish , which was a feeling she had not had in a very long time . |
| 6 | I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time . |
| 7 | General Manager said ‘ We are happy to respond to the request and were able to provide a competitive price in a very quick time ’ . |
| 8 | er We are living in a very sophisticated time , how can you , how can you make people see things more simply ? |
| 9 | If a wild and untouched horse was stabled with a domestic one that vocally demanded food , the wild horse would learn the domesticated horse 's vocabulary in a very short time and be whinnying for its breakfast too . |
| 10 | There was no doubt that if it did spread to the nearest stack it would set the whole hayfield alight in a very short time . |
| 11 | Owners of hotels , guest houses , caravan parks and shops have to make most of their profit in a very short time . |
| 12 | An old person who is bedbound may get pressure sores or ulcers in a very short time and these can take a long time to heal ( see page 78 ) . |
| 13 | It seemed ridiculous , but a frown crossed his face when he remembered that in a very short time the hard fiat sand that he was walking on would be thirty feet under the water of one of the most unpredictable estuaries in the world He also knew that the tide was usually preceded by a rising wind |
| 14 | And in a very short time James Sayers had constructed a continuously pumped CW klystron operating at about 20 kV anode voltage . |
| 15 | The Food Magazine has achieved a great deal in a very short time , and the national press regards it as a reliable source of information . |
| 16 | The first of these was converted from the abbey to great house in a very short time , a transaction made easier by Browne 's use of the abbot 's lodging as the centre of his new house . |
| 17 | Not only does it sizzle to perfection in a very short time but its natural succulence and subtle , sweet taste win compliments whenever it is served . |
| 18 | We are stowed away on Curve 's tour bus — for YOU , for death , for glory , for kicks — for a brace of early Rollercoaster rides , and , in a very short time indeed , we have become disfigured by the spirit of rock ‘ n ’ roll — which is n't I WILL , it is I KILL . |
| 19 | A good idea can therefore be brought to a successful and polished conclusion in a very short time at the cost of only a few sheets of paper and with the minimum of effort . |
| 20 | They are capable of moving rapidly across the battlefield in a very short time , either to intercept enemy or to harass static war machines . |
| 21 | This is both because of the moral principle involved , and because , as Polsky believes , the researcher will be spotted by the criminal group in a very short time , and will then be in trouble . |
| 22 | Sir Michael Graydon , chief of the air staff , said jets could be in position ‘ in a very short time ’ . |
| 23 | But the beauty of air power is it can get wherever you want it and go there very quickly indeed , because aircraft can be there in a very short time , ’ he said at the 75th anniversary celebrations at RAF Marham , Norfolk . |
| 24 | The king had his attendants with him , and in a very short time they overpowered and killed Gowrie and his brother , whose bodies were hanged , drawn and quartered , the quarters being displayed at Edinburgh , Perth , Dundee and Stirling . |
| 25 | When they return with the honey , they too will perform a dance so that , in a very short time , most of the worker force in the hive is actively gathering honey from the new source . |
| 26 | The brandy , which they had been too polite to refuse , had made them drunk in a very short time , as they were not used to drinking anything stronger than beer . |
| 27 | In a very short time he heard Mary say , ‘ This is where I found the key … and this is the door … and this … this is the secret garden ! ’ |
| 28 | An uncontrolled soldier was usually a dead one as well , in a very short time . |
| 29 | " Two people can become close in a very short time , " |
| 30 | From careful work on the snail faunas of the chalk sludge from one of these ( the Devil 's Kneading Trough in Kent ) Dr Michael Kerney showed that the erosion must have happened in a very short time indeed . |