Example sentences of "only [art] short time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Illustrious ’ had been subjected to vicious bombing only a short time previously , and the defending fighters had been battered by swarms of Me109s and Macchis . |
| 2 | With the abandonment of sectarian politics and the adoption of the popular front strategy , he was forced to relinquish the tactics of undifferentiated confrontation and engage instead in a complex ideological process in which unequivocal condemnation of the agents of fascism was interspersed with sophisticated and complex support for a wide range of liberal fellow-travellers who only a short time previously would have been roundly condemned as class enemies . |
| 3 | A great deal has happened since the Financial Reporting Council and its three attendant bodies came into being only a short time ago . |
| 4 | Only a short time ago she had been as physically intimate with him as it was possible for a man and woman to be . |
| 5 | He looked round them all as though none of them afforded him any surprise , though two of them did not belong here , and to his certain knowledge had been elsewhere only a short time ago . |
| 6 | Well , that was natural ; only a short time ago , when Rick Lawrence was the quarry , Melissa had felt exactly the same . |
| 7 | only a short time ago |
| 8 | Each was dramatic and each was followed only a short time later by a key Congressional vote . ’ |
| 9 | Why is he not restrained — by Simon Peter , for example , who , only a short time later , is not only armed , but also sufficiently violent to attack an attendant of the High Priest ? |
| 10 | The wet plaster smell and the white dust on the cobbles underfoot indicated that rubble had been cleared from the yard only a short time before . |
| 11 | They had only a short time before followed the tantalising fresh scent-trail laid by Grant and Larsen , which they had then lost at the foot of the house wall . |
| 12 | I might have saved myself the trouble , as the family remained together for only a short time afterwards ; my sisters married , leaving only my mother and myself at home … |
| 13 | The young KGB girl , who only a short time earlier had been the eager recipient of General Vashinov 's favours , smiled at Duncan . |