Example sentences of "in so [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His pride of heart and condition may again take place and a man who could in so little a space first love me , then hate , then banish me his house and now send for me again in such affectionate terms may still waver , may still deceive thee . |
| 2 | Mr. Miller , of whom I must always retain the highest sense , both for the Knowledge I have received from his Labours , and more particularly that Friendship and Communicativeness with which he always treated me , was blessed with a more favourable Situation in the progress of his Experiments , by enjoying the kind Influence of the Sun ( the parent of Vegetation ) in so high a Degree as to have the Vine in full ripeness on the natural Wall , without the assistance of Art ; and could we all experience the same Felicity , I need not have communicated my Observations or my Countrymen wanted an other Tutor … |
| 3 | So much animosity in so short a call . |
| 4 | Wexford wondered how long since anyone had made so many damaging admissions in this office in so short a space of time . |
| 5 | Eudoxus initially is shocked by this possibility : ‘ Is it possible that any should so far grow out of frame that they should in so short a space quite forget their country and their own names ? ’ . |
| 6 | Indeed , it would be difficult to cover both a sick man and a dying man in so short a space . |
| 7 | This was the Wasp ’ that stung twice when 99 Spitfires were delivered to Malta in so short a period . |
| 8 | It became , ‘ how can it possibly have come about in so short a period of time that so many women have become involved in politics ? ’ |
| 9 | Never had so many children developed weak bladders in so short a period . |
| 10 | One might well ask what has happened to transform the public mood from complacency to crisis in so short a time . |
| 11 | This is a tremendous response in so short a time . |
| 12 | Sceptics doubt the influence of the press , however , and especially whether it could have so much influence in so short a time . |
| 13 | Therefore , if the origin of the phenomenon is as recent as the late eighteenth century , it is difficult to explain how it could have become so geographically widespread in so short a time : it was already highly salient and overtly stigmatized by the latter half of the nineteenth century ( for some citations see Phillipps , 1984 , 136–9 ) . |
| 14 | If the interval during which he kept his eyes closed was very short , say one second , he could maintain that we could not have exchanged our places in so short a time and invoke the laws of physics in support of his view . |
| 15 | So much change , in so short a time ; Pete felt as if he 'd aged more in ten weeks than in the ten years that had gone before . |
| 16 | How could she have possibly imagined how dramatically her feelings towards him would have changed in so short a time ? |
| 17 | Could one fall in love in so short a time ? |
| 18 | Rarely can there have been so many upheavals in the landscape in so short a time . |
| 19 | The authors are indeed to be congratulated on producing such a clear and authoritative treatment of their subject in so short a time . |
| 20 | ‘ My collections , I am happy to say ’ he wrote , despite his own and prince 's fears , ‘ have all arrived in safety and I can now scarcely tell how so large a mass was got together in so short a time . ’ |
| 21 | Although gossip was that Churchill had been tempted , given the mighty scale of Germany 's achievements in so short a time , the iron returned to his soul and he steamrollered furiously through his doubting Cabinet . |
| 22 | In contrast , the to infinitive could not be used in the following two sentences , where reference is made to nonce happenings : ( 119 ) I never knew anyone do so much in so short a time . |
| 23 | In so short a time she 'd forgotten just how big he was . |
| 24 | What was happening to them that this awareness had reached such a pitch in so short a time ? |
| 25 | So much had happened in so short a time ; it was like a bad dream . |
| 26 | Probably because there might have been an echo of the headmaster in so public a request . |
| 27 | No need , in so public a setting , to show his true opinion of the man 's shallowness . |
| 28 | And since they could hardly do that in so public a place , these ragged youths half her size who were pressing around her , she was not really afraid . |
| 29 | All examples show similar characteristics ; they are generally stone vaulted — an unusual feature in so early a period and rare in southern Europe — the majority have cupolas supported on squinches and/or intersecting barrel vaults ; the stonework is solid but crude ; ornament generally includes interlacing in bands of carving on stone borders and the patterns are made up from circles , diamonds or zig-zags — the interlacing is like a prototype of the later Romanesque basket work patterns . |
| 30 | Nancy then told them , in so low a voice that the listener round the corner could hardly hear her , where Monks often went for a drink , and what he looked like . |