Example sentences of "short of [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1993 , eight years short of its 250th anniversary , and still trading under its original name , it has fewer branches than Thins and a turnover probably around £13m ( Thins is believed to be around £15m ) . |
| 2 | Six of the side — Julie Hall , Helen Dobson , Elaine Farquharson , Catriona Lambert , Kathryn Imrie and Linzi Fletcher — are all some way short of their 25th birthdays , while Helen Wadsworth , 26 , and Vicki Thomas , 36 , are hardly in the Methuselah class ! |
| 3 | A weekend in May and the fields full of blossom and the twins a little short of their third birthday . |
| 4 | Dora had told him that Miss Alexandra was but a month short of her twenty-second birthday and he had gone out of the kitchen , scratching his head in disbelief . |
| 5 | Then Fairbrother lobbed Andrew to Such at mid-wicket , Graham Lloyd was lbw in the same over , and two overs later Speak was caught behind one run short of his first century of the season . |
| 6 | GRAEME SOUNESS was one week short of his first anniversary in charge of Liverpool when the stresses and strains of football management took their heavy toll . |
| 7 | It was here in Chambers Street that Benjamin and Elizabeth Titford were living — probably , we may guess , as guests of brother Thomas at no. 11 — when they took their little son for baptism at St Mary Whitechapel in the March of 1809 , a few days short of his first birthday . |
| 8 | Fittipaldi was two months short of his 24th birthday at the time . |
| 9 | His family were encouraged by signs of a recovery on Friday , but at three o'clock the next morning , 6 January , 1934 , two weeks short of his fifty-sixth birthday , Herbert Chapman died . |
| 10 | Just short of his 33rd birthday , Superbrat had transformed himself into Supermac . |
| 11 | The Ekeko is a young god , a year short of his 200th birthday . |
| 12 | He was a few weeks short of his fiftieth birthday , a somewhat elderly junior minister . |
| 13 | Otsuka was awarded his tenth dan by the brother of the emperor of Japan , and until his death in 1982 , just four months short of his 90th birthday , he was the world 's oldest practising karateka . |
| 14 | He died 10 years later , on 20 June 1828 , in nearby Wellington Street — just two days short of his twenty-ninth wedding anniversary , and a mere two weeks after the death of his pauper uncle , John Titford , in Frome . |
| 15 | There is , indeed , so much vigour in the playing that it is hard to credit him with the age the dictionaries seem to agree on ( he was six months short of his 75th birthday when he made these recordings ) . |
| 16 | Although still some months short of his fifteenth birthday , Richard had already discovered from experience that there is a critical relationship between the piquancy of a secret and the number of people who can keep it . |
| 17 | A few days short of his fifteenth birthday , Gert attempted suicide , cutting his wrist and jumping from a third-floor window . |
| 18 | Poor man , he died in 1989 , just short of his eightieth birthday . |
| 19 | STAFFORD MURRAY , 19 days short of his 14th birthday , became the youngest winner of a senior county closed championship at the Leominster Leisure Centre , Herefordshire , yesterday when he defeated his coach , Peter Ratcliffe , 9-5 , 9-7 , 9-2 in the final . |
| 20 | So you 're three years short of your ninetieth birthday . |