Example sentences of "in a [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may remember that , when Olympic diver Greg Louganis struck his head on the diving board , in a surprisingly short time he returned to the board to win a third Gold Medal . |
| 2 | The point is that such an elaborate division of labour was set up despite , as Trist et al. observed , each job not being so ‘ complex that the average faceworker could not , in a reasonably short time , be expected to become qualified in more than one ’ ( 1963 , 47 ) . |
| 3 | In a remarkably short time changes in procedures , products and work-load , promotions , resignations , retirements and so on can transform any situation . |
| 4 | In a remarkably short time , they have established an outstanding national and international reputation . |
| 5 | You make some really good friends , friends you fucking trust your life on sort of thing or your girl friend get a million pounds in , in , in a amazingly short time , cos you 've got to work together , its really , really good . |
| 6 | In a traditionally dead time of the year for the housing market , Hambros has been inundated with buyers . |
| 7 | We met , fell head over heels in love in a shockingly short time , and were still in love thirty years later when he died . ’ |
| 8 | Mentally handicapped children , especially those with severe handicaps , need to be taught social skills which may be naturally acquired in a comparatively short time by children of higher intelligence . |
| 9 | In a comparatively short time the student is equipped with systems and a metalanguage suitable for carrying out the required tasks in a clear and specific manner . |
| 10 | Clocksin and Moore , who performed this experiment , found that the robot could indeed learn its way around its workspace in a fairly short time ( between a quarter and half an hour ) . |
| 11 | Where I have a little concern and that 's only 'cos I do n't know the of all of it , is that you are picking up , yes very minor non-conformances but in practice fairly large numbers in a fairly short time scale what I would be concerned about is when you get your B S I audit that these other areas that you have n't looked at have got equally this lack of attention to detail , that you end up with not only major break down in your system , but sufficient minor breakdowns in your system , to cause them to say that they wo n't give you registration . |
| 12 | Because the recommendations in our Report have been prepared in a relatively short time , some changes will almost certainly prove necessary in the light of experience . |
| 13 | It proved to be a surprisingly accurate account of what in the event did happen , and is outlined here to illustrate the way in which , in one corner of Oxfordshire , changes which had been argued over for a decade could be effected in a relatively short time . |
| 14 | Successes such as this suggest that remedial actions are feasible and can bring beneficial effects in a relatively short time . |
| 15 | By interviewing people we can obviously obtain a great deal of information in a relatively short time . |
| 16 | The goals should be realistic ( i.e. attainable in a relatively short time ) and specific . |
| 17 | In our view it will lead , in a relatively short time , to fewer people reading auditors ' reports ' . |
| 18 | It was always good , the more so because he spent a great deal of time trapped indoors by his choice of work , a choice governed by his wish to acquire a useful little nest-egg in a relatively short time . |
| 19 | A social survey is a method of obtaining large amounts of data , usually in a statistical form , from a large number of people in a relatively short time . |
| 20 | Taiwan 's experience is typical of poor countries that have become rich and industrialised in a relatively short time . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , from the middle of the eighteenth century , the process of enclosure of the Midland open fields developed apace and in a relatively short time produced the landscape that Professor Hoskins describes so w–ell . |
| 22 | ‘ We certainly surprised a lot of people and I think we may even have surprised ourselves by the progress we had made in a relatively short time . ’ |
| 23 | All this plus the lower level of media attention , defused the scare in a relatively short time . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | That 's what poets were , y'know , in a very distant time . ’ |
| 26 | Then the man spoke his first word in a very long time as he looked at Beth panting away . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Pleased and strangely girlish , which was a feeling she had not had in a very long time . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | General Manager said ‘ We are happy to respond to the request and were able to provide a competitive price in a very quick time ’ . |