Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] for a short " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , a director is likely to be restricted by his service contract from competing with his employer at any time while employed by the company , and probably for a short period afterwards . |
| 2 | He was soon posted to England and then for a short period to Brussels before leaving the Bank in 1975 . |
| 3 | In the end we all agree that AZT is an effective drug , but only for a short period . ’ |
| 4 | It seems that Gainsborough produced such works as favours for important clients , but only for a short period in his career , later preferring oil on paper for smaller portraits of this sort . |
| 5 | They had provided her with a local map , pin-pointing the exact location of the Château La Tour Monchauzet , and explaining she should take the Villereal road out of Issigeac , but only for a short distance . |
| 6 | But they do , they get paid a lot of money but only for a short period of time . |