Example sentences of "within a [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | A substantial market exists for reasonably priced , good quality meals , available in an informal setting and which can be obtained and consumed within a fairly short time . |
2 | His racing career hung in the balance but Cardus was back on the track within a miraculously short time . |
3 | Within a very short time several of those who were disappointed at his election swung over to gratitude for his coming and enthusiasm for what he did to the faculty . |
4 | In hospital it is possible to replace initial intravenous therapy with ciprofloxacin by the oral route within a very short time , which can make cost savings since patients do not have to be hospitalised for treatment . |
5 | D. With modern machinery and techniques of building we are capable of making vast changes in a landscape within a very short time and some of these changes may affect the lives of people over large areas or in many different parts of the UK . |
6 | Within a very short time , I dealt with three fractured femurs in Church Street — I never saw one with a foot turned out . |
7 | I have seen students who were initially persuaded rather against their will , to use a computer for solving some statistical problem in psychology become addicted within a very short time . |
8 | When two of the Society 's officials visited Orkney for consultation with the Social Work Department , the Orkney grapevine ensured that everyone in South Ronaldsay knew they were there within a very short time of their arrival . |
9 | Stay here and , within a very short time , it is easy to sit back and imagine the life and traditional ways of the peasants who once toiled here and in the hills all around . |
10 | What has most puzzled students of the period is the complete disappearance of the Picts as a distinct entity within a very short time . |
11 | If central government , as a matter of policy , curtails the building of new local authority houses then , within a very short time , there will be few council houses available locally for allocation . |
12 | Within a very short time she was back again in full and active negotiation , determined to resist to the maximum extent possible any encroachment on the National Health Service for private interests . |
13 | Aitken asserted at the trial , and this view was certainly supported by independent witnesses , that no word about confidentiality was ever uttered , but the document was handed over to him on the footing that it would be returned within a very short time . |
14 | Within a very short time , she heard the sounds of bolts being drawn back . |
15 | Certainly he was on the spot within a very short time . ’ |
16 | 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 . |
17 | ‘ You shall have both , ’ he promised , and within a very short time they were back in the blissfully cool hotel . |
18 | What , what , what he 's saying is that a revolution is taking place here and it is , within a very short time it 's gon na spread on into other provinces . |
19 | Do they really mean it when they say that a proposal is ‘ not negotiable ’ or conditional upon your acceptance within a very strict time limit ? |
20 | Formal and repetitive in nature , it played year after year within a specifically limited time and place . |
21 | ‘ To my mind , it is a virtual certainty that the partnership 's operations would have been brought to an end , in one way or another , within a relatively short time after … |
22 | Even within a relatively short time ( 5–10 years ) a situation may develop wherein the economic gain is sufficiently diminished that the enterprise becomes self-destructive as the environmental costs increase . |
23 | Within a relatively short time period no further hydrocarbon-producing reactions would take place and gas generation would cease . |
24 | Moreover , he concludes , ‘ medical students ’ disease terminates readily and within a relatively short time ’ . |
25 | The second item of research was that undertaken by Morrison and MacIntyre ( 1969 , also quoted in Georgiades and Phillimore , 1975 ) who had found that ‘ changes in sensitivity towards pupil/ teacher relationships developed during initial training were reversed as a result of full time teaching within a relatively short time ’ . |
26 | Whatever their purpose , the turntable , loop and building were probably removed within a relatively short time , for in the years following its opening the BCR could not afford to keep anything that it did not need . |
27 | For these technical reasons , the Audio Visual machine is much more advanced , and would not have to upgraded within a relatively short time , as I would fear with the 3M machine . |
28 | In minor cases these people can produce reports fairly quickly and will cover the matter in such a comprehensive manner that further reports should be unnecessary , particularly where there is a full recovery within a relatively short time . |
29 | Mr Murray explained that the aim would be that loans should be repaid within a relatively short time . |
30 | The only real sadness in my life has been that both my parents died young , and within a comparatively short time of each other . ’ |