Example sentences of "[noun prp] for a short [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To improve , she attended an art class in Sheffield for a short time . |
| 2 | Regent International Hotels , which was recently acquired by Four Seasons , has returned to London — where it owned the Dorchester for a short while — to open the 309-room , Regent Hotel , Marylebone . |
| 3 | The walk follows a winding road out of Ballycastle for a short while , but it is worth branching off at the sign for Kinbane Castle . |
| 4 | He returned to England for a short holiday in May 1929 . |
| 5 | It was agreed that as the European War was over I should take my family back to England for a short period of leave . |
| 6 | ‘ She told the doctor at the orphanage , ‘ If I 'm going to go to England for a short time I must be careful not to give too much of my love , but if I 'm going to be there for a long time I can give all the love I can ’ , ’ Mike says . |
| 7 | Two of the world 's finest guitarists , John Renbourne and Wizz Jones , arrive in Ireland for a short tour later this month . |
| 8 | Then , obviously wanting to leave us alone , our friend said that he had to go to the village of Lalatta for a short time ; he would be back in twenty minutes , by which time I would have to start making my way back to Lagrimone . |
| 9 | After two years national service he returned to Newark for a short period before moving to Peterborough in 1952 . |
| 10 | Great Britain , for example , has two chambers — the House of Commons and the House of Lords , but the power of the House of Lords is restricted to the possibility of delaying legislation passed by the Commons for a short period and trying to make amendments to bills , if the government is prepared to accept them . |
| 11 | He worked at Underwood Pit when they were came to this district and then they came into the Newthorpe Common district and er and then er we moved from Newthorpe Common and he went to Williamthorpe for a short while , only from erm probably eighteen months to two years , that 's as much as did there . |
| 12 | Sigismund III of Poland actually enticed Marenzio to his new capital at Warsaw for a short period in 1595–6 and employed a number of Italian musicians , one of whom , Asprilio Pacelli ( 1570–1623 ) , published a book of madrigals ( Venice , 1601 ) ; but that was all . |
| 13 | Murdock worked at Soho for a short time and then in about 1779 he was sent to Cornwall as the firm 's chief mechanic and agent in all technical matters . |
| 14 | On entering this small village follow the Rue du Castellas for a short distance until , just after a gravel pit on the left , a track bears off left . |
| 15 | Break your journey at Marton for a short walk to the site where Cook was born in 1728 . |
| 16 | Norman Crawford then pulled off a master stroke , introducing McConnell , and he set up Mark Burns for a short corner strike in the 46th minute before adding two goals himself in the space of five minutes to leave Holywood 4–2 ahead . |
| 17 | The McKays qualified and married in Edinburgh and then left to work in London for a short time before travel beckoned and they went to work firstly in Papua New Guinea and then in Lusaka , Zambia . |
| 18 | I was afraid to leave Edinburgh , even momentarily , in case there was word from the War Office , but in September 1944 my mother persuaded me to go with her to Bedford for a short holiday . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's going to America for a short while . |
| 20 | He then took the family south to Alabama for a short vacation before they all left the country . |