Example sentences of "in the short [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cathedral clergy were to take the profits from the mint they ran , but in the short run they were evidently short of cash . |
| 2 | In the short run it attempted to detach itself from its ‘ extremist ’ wing — more properly , those sections of the Labour Party which the right-wing popular press considered extreme — on the grounds that the ‘ loony left ’ cost it electoral votes . |
| 3 | In the short run it may be more realistic to build upon the commitment of formal and informal voluntary service which already exists among the elderly . |
| 4 | Although this is the socially efficient output in the short run it is not efficient in the long run . |
| 5 | In the short run it is generally argued that tax cuts will simply stimulate aggregate demand and , with aggregate supply largely unaffected , will be inflationary . |
| 6 | In the short run he wished to rally moderate Indian opinion , which had been put out of countenance by its non-inclusion in the Simon Commission , set up to review the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms in 1927 ; in the long term he wished to save India for the Commonwealth . |
| 7 | Mr Murrell said : ‘ In the short term we recommend the safety first approach ’ . |
| 8 | The Stanleys promptly married the girls into their own family , but in the short term they were unable to dislodge the Harringtons from Hornby , and the dispute dragged on into Edward 's second reign . |
| 9 | In the short term they need assurance that the payment for past services will be forthcoming . |
| 10 | The Stanleys promptly married the girls into their own family , but in the short term they were unable to dislodge the Harringtons from Hornby , and the dispute dragged on into Edward 's second reign . |
| 11 | The acting works convener , Tommy Gorman , said : ‘ In the short term they will need the axles and components which we manufacture here but we want to find out what their long-term plans are . |
| 12 | Now whether it means that in the short term they all land on your desk , and you give them just a superficial examination I do n't know . |
| 13 | So , in the short term I see little hope for the newcomer or success for the organic smallholder . |
| 14 | In the short term I think that 's an area I can get over that until I get a car which |
| 15 | Also deduction of the Fund 's initial charge ( where applicable ) means that if an investor withdraws from his investment in the short term he may not get back the amount he originally invested . |
| 16 | In the short term he sees NT very much as a client system , with take-up by the server community a couple of years away . |
| 17 | In the short term he sees NT very much as a client system , with take-up by the server community a couple of years out . |
| 18 | It does n't require much thought , and in the short term it works . |
| 19 | True , the reformers promised an ‘ adaptable ’ worker , but adaptability lay in the eyes of the beholder and , anyway , in the short term it was more relevant to the supply of , than the demand for , labour and , therefore , of little immediate interest to employers . |
| 20 | Growing your own vegetables is much the cheapest way of avoiding pesticides in the long run , but in the short term it may be possible to get unsprayed produce from someone with a large garden or allotment . |
| 21 | In the short term it might be expected to gain considerably from the actual construction of the tunnel and figures for the period up to March 1989 show that the South East , including Kent , had gained 27% of the £492m worth of contracts placed in the UK by Transmanche Link : Kent , as a single county , attracted a high share of 9% . |
| 22 | In the short term it did sterling work in organizing petitions , counter-demonstrations and , most significantly , a mass lobby of Haringey Council in October , 1986 , when the Labour councillors reaffirmed their commitment to all aspects of their lesbian and gay rights policy . |
| 23 | In the short term it was in their interest to co-operate with the rest of the council , and the real test of their ambitions would come after the coronation , when they would be in a position to exploit their closeness to the new king . |
| 24 | In an important speech on disarmament in February 1987 Gorbachev asserted that while it remained best ‘ to revive the old idea of dismantling foreign bases and bringing the troops home ’ in the short term it would be desirable to have inspection access to American military bases on foreign territories for verification purposes ‘ to be sure that there is no activity going on there which is forbidden under an eventual agreement ’ . |
| 25 | And while in the short term it wo n't replace other forms of communication such as fax or telex , in time these will become as relevant to our business as semaphore or the carrier pigeon were hundreds of years ago . |
| 26 | Indeed , in the short term it could only further inflame Serbian nationalism , with bad results . |
| 27 | Open-market operations ( the purchase and sale of money market securities by the Bank of England ) can have a number of effects : in the short term it can have the effect of tilting the yield curve both upwards and downwards ; in the longer term , by leading to changes in the money supply , it can influence inflationary expectations which in turn can affect the level of the yield curve . |
| 28 | A recent investment boom should help firms to compete internationally , though in the short term it has worsened the trade deficit . |
| 29 | In the short term it was in their interest to co-operate with the rest of the council , and the real test of their ambitions would come after the coronation , when they would be in a position to exploit their closeness to the new king . |
| 30 | In the short term it proposes increased monitoring to ensure that the highest standards of pesticide use are maintained . |