Example sentences of "very short [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are some reprieved murderers whom it is right to release on licence after very short periods of imprisonment ( for example , a mother who kills an imbecile child from merciful motives ) , and it would be undesirable in such cases for a court publicly to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a few months or for a year or two , and thereby to create the impression that the taking of human life may in certain circumstances be no graver a crime than theft . |
| 2 | In my view , accuracy can only be assured over very short periods of time , after which the refereeing panel must receive a proper rest . |
| 3 | Their specialism is in lending and borrowing for very short periods of time from one day to up to about three months . |
| 4 | She was given a very short expectation of life by the doctors . |
| 5 | Many of the agreements are only for minority groups , especially BCU members , many give access to only very short lengths of river and dates of use can be restricted . |
| 6 | The whole flat , and the garden , within a very short space of time , was wired for sound and you would come in , perhaps in the middle of the night , and fall flat on your face over and leads and God knows what . |
| 7 | She 's only 21 and she 's crammed a lot into a very short space of time . ’ |
| 8 | One vulture sighting carrion below unintentionally informs all others of its availability by swooping downwards , and thus dozens of vultures arrive at the scene of an animal kill in a very short space of time . |
| 9 | Pilgrims come now in their millions — two million by air in a very short space of time . |
| 10 | The stitching can go rotten in a very short space of time and remember when you start the cross country course , ride with confidence or do not start ! |
| 11 | In a very short space of time she would have her feet under the table and those huge jaws would be munching their way into the breast . |
| 12 | In a very short space of time — just a few decades — the industrial moths had gone through a small but distinct evolutionary step . |
| 13 | At the age of thirty-four he met and married within a very short space of time a widow who was four years his senior . |
| 14 | The diode used must be capable of carrying the peak inductor current ; in addition , it must be able to recover from its conducting state to its blocking state in a very short space of time . |
| 15 | Not so with the GR-1 ; all of us here have sat and played it and no-one has had too much difficulty adjusting to the GR 's demands in a very short space of time . |
| 16 | The advent of satellite T.V. and the commitment of ITV to rugby coverage provides the opportunity to assess how the Australians cope with the challenges of Scotland , New Zealand and South Africa during a very short space of time . |
| 17 | They simply churned out dozens of reprints and impressions in a very short space of time to keep up with the ever growing demand by the Wallace clamouring public . |
| 18 | To this day , I still marvel at the fact that , in a country where even the most seasoned and recalcitrant dyke can be made to feel truly perverted in a very short space of time , women found , and still do find , the courage to step into the breach of difference and come out . |
| 19 | ‘ You can find out interesting things in a very short space of time , sir . |
| 20 | Unlike many jobs , housework can often be done in a very short space of time without actually failing to be done at all . |
| 21 | In the case of Julie Smith it will be very short and admission procedures , nursing assessment and preparation for theatre will have to be compressed into a very short space of time . |
| 22 | Now , bearing in mind the very short space of time between now and the close of the enquiry , I want to be sure that as far as objectors and the council are concerned , that this is a course of action which is both acceptable and practical as far as they are concerned . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In a very short space of time , she had demolished two more such beef sandwiches supplied by Mr Beckenham , with the addition of a large slice of pie , the whole washed down with gulps of water in between , only so that she might clear her mouth for more food . |
| 26 | in a very short space of time then , but then carries on . |
| 27 | Very short space of time it 's gone quite a distance . |
| 28 | The fact is , it 's condensed into a very short space of time so you have n't got much chance to think . |
| 29 | When Celtic equalised , bringing about a result that caused Aberdeen to lose ground in the championship race , there was that involuntary twitching movement , spreading from Aitken 's head to his toes , which signals that he is on the verge of doing someone a mischief unless he gets a satisfactory explanation in a very short space of time . |
| 30 | In the very short space of time that we have available this afternoon there are three subjects that I need simply to bring to the attention of Synod . |