Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] a [adv] short " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , it was a masque , and I wanted , or after a very short while began to want , to play my part . |
| 2 | Ortega announced on Nov. 8 that a total of 5,000 officers would be retired in order to bring the full complement of the People 's Sandinista Army ( EPS ) down to 28,000 " immediately or in a very short time " . |
| 3 | The only sensible response to this , Neil decided ruefully , was to keep hold of the cane , and continue to threaten the bully with it , and for a very short space of time they circled around one another — neither man , it soon became plain , really wishing to do more than threaten . |
| 4 | There was an inevitable lack of interest when rabbit stocks fell after myxomatosis , and after a very short time there was a corresponding fall in the number of ferrets retained for sporting purposes . |
| 5 | She turned abruptly into the fitting-room and after a very short time reappeared , looking as perfect as if she had spent hours dressing instead of minutes . |
| 6 | At the beginning of the third stage intra-EC exchange rates are to be fixed and after a relatively short period the ECU will replace member countries ' currencies as the Community 's sole currency . |
| 7 | For one brief moment he had thought it was Jenny , absurdly garbed and with a ridiculously short haircut . |
| 8 | But both have their roots in the land and within a reasonably short space of time Low Birk Hatt is due to emerge , its amenities vastly improved , as a family home with cattle grazing the land around it |
| 9 | Moreover , he concludes , ‘ medical students ’ disease terminates readily and within a relatively short time ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ You shall have both , ’ he promised , and within a very short time they were back in the blissfully cool hotel . |
| 11 | The only real sadness in my life has been that both my parents died young , and within a comparatively short time of each other . ’ |
| 12 | And in a very short time James Sayers had constructed a continuously pumped CW klystron operating at about 20 kV anode voltage . |
| 13 | The king had his attendants with him , and in a very short time they overpowered and killed Gowrie and his brother , whose bodies were hanged , drawn and quartered , the quarters being displayed at Edinburgh , Perth , Dundee and Stirling . |
| 14 | To her astonishment , he nodded curtly , and in a very short time they arrived at her flat . |
| 15 | And in a very short while they would be back in the enforced intimacy of Water Gypsy 's cabin . |
| 16 | Those behind ran into those in front , some tried to crowd past , and in a very short time the result was , as Nikos had forecast , a shambles . |
| 17 | They may not have thought of it as expertise , but when people said to me a particular ward is dirty , I went and looked at it , and in a very short time , within about ten minutes , that ward had got a massive clean-up team in there , that 's the sort of thing that I felt was useful . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Q , W , E , R become C , D , E , F and S , D , F become G , A and B. Slightly awkward to start with but within a very short space of time you perform these operation without looking . |
| 20 | But within a very short period of time the ideological balance of power in the town shifts dramatically . |