Example sentences of "series [prep] short [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean-Marc Ferreri and Eric Cantona accumulated a series of short passes on the edge of the Scots ' box and the ball broke to Didier Deschamps 10 yards from goal with Gough nowhere in sight . |
| 2 | True cats have instead a series of short bones , placed end to end . |
| 3 | Between 1947 and 1955 a man called Will Cowan made a long series of short documentaries on the popular Jazz artists of the era . |
| 4 | The photographs are excellent , clustered with captions after an explanatory essay , or in some cases a series of short essays . |
| 5 | A series of short pitches , to avoid rope drag , zigzagged upwards to below a huge overhang , where a traverse left teetered to a safe , sunless stance overlooking the north face . |
| 6 | Then there 's her book — a series of short stories and reflections entitled Memoirs Of A Pretty Lady — that is due to be followed by a second volume next summer , ‘ if I finish it on time , which I 'd better ’ . |
| 7 | I recently heard , too , of a series of short stories featuring a slave detective of Ancient Rome that were popular some fifty years ago . |
| 8 | If your interest in the past centres on some figure in particular from days gone by you could perhaps not do better than to consider whether he or she would make a detective , as the American writer Lilian de la Torre did with a series of short stories about Dr Sam Johnson , Detector . |
| 9 | Joyce began work on the book — which was to have been a series of short stories based on Irish history and mythology — in 1923 , but the project never reached fruition and was abandoned a year later . |
| 10 | However , growth hormone , like other hormones , is released in a series of short bursts and it is the frequency of these that is increased just after sleep onset ( see fig. 3.2 ) . |
| 11 | Between the advertisements for Brylcream and Bile Beans was set out a forty-page prospectus for a ‘ new Britain' , consisting of a series of short articles putting forward proposals for a fresh approach to employment , social security , town planning , architecture , the countryside , education , health , the medical services and leisure . |
| 12 | In 1988 Courage 's Head of Design disdainfully referred to such ramshackle , unplanned buildings as ‘ an abundance of licensed living rooms ’ ; many of his contemporaries have enthusiastically destroyed the internal room plan of such cosy and comfortable buildings in order to install in its place a series of short flights between ascending levels — an increasingly common solution originally devised by pub designer Roy Wilson-Smith in the 1970s . |
| 13 | It consists of a series of short modules through the year , with students having considerable choice and the opportunity to complete a research dissertation . |
| 14 | Alternatively , it may be considered appropriate to make a series of short recordings in different settings and compare the results . |
| 15 | The only important examples are the two-week stoppage over differentials by ASLEF in 1955 , and the same union 's two-week strike in the summer of 1982 ( following a series of short strikes in January and February ) over flexible rostering . |
| 16 | A series of short courses on communication skills and theory will be held by the Institute for Christian Ministries and Training at Daystar University College in Nairobi , Kenya , during 1992 . |
| 17 | The eastern regional news programme includes a series of short features screened on the last Wednesday of each month . |
| 18 | Readers may also recall that in this new volume of the journal we are introducing an occasional unrefereed series of short features entitled ‘ EP-odds and ends ’ . |
| 19 | In their semi-final the Benton pair were fully extended for three hours by Newark 's Malcolm Edwards and Alan Ward ; then Allcock dominated a series of short ends to go through 25–19 . |
| 20 | At the edges , make a series of short marks on the vinyl where skirting board and sheet will meet . |
| 21 | Can I just say to you that that 's already been developed and worked out we 're intending in the next cycle to bring you proposals for a housing strategy , er on social housing , and within that we 're intending to run a series of short seminars for members to give members , all members , not just members of this committee but members of all area committees until everybody has that information background information on things like , social housing , partnerships , housing association grant so that everybody 's in a position to actually er , see and make a decision on what this council wants out of social housing , but all of that will take place in the next cycle Chair . |
| 22 | This is the first of a rare , three-part series of short films , in conjunction with the London Film-makers Co-op . |
| 23 | He shook his head then and did a series of short barks in his throat . |