Example sentences of "[adv] short a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wexford wondered how long since anyone had made so many damaging admissions in this office in so short a space of time . |
| 2 | Even so it is strange that Veblen should have failed to recognise the magnitude of what the fierce emulation of railroad promoters , industrialists and bankers in fact managed to achieve in North America during so short a space of time . |
| 3 | Eudoxus initially is shocked by this possibility : ‘ Is it possible that any should so far grow out of frame that they should in so short a space quite forget their country and their own names ? ’ . |
| 4 | Indeed , it would be difficult to cover both a sick man and a dying man in so short a space . |
| 5 | By going even so short a distance , however , men could free themselves from the control of their lord and the custom of the manor , and it is clear that one can see a similar situation elsewhere in the country ; families were prepared to leave the land to free themselves from their lords ( 79 , p.35 ) . |
| 6 | She was blonde and doll-faced , but her blue eyes gave the impression that she 'd just about seen everything , and rather more than was healthy for so short a life . |
| 7 | So much animosity in so short a call . |
| 8 | The notes refer to other dancers representing handmaidens , a bird and winds : rather complex for so short a work . |
| 9 | So short a time ago they had found and shared a grassy path in a brief Eden of summerblue skies , tapestry green and flowered meadows , every day a delight , the world a beautiful old master cleaned in the zephyr of Lucy 's being . |
| 10 | One might well ask what has happened to transform the public mood from complacency to crisis in so short a time . |
| 11 | This is a tremendous response in so short a time . |
| 12 | Sceptics doubt the influence of the press , however , and especially whether it could have so much influence in so short a time . |
| 13 | It is particularly impressive that she was able to win such a prestigious commendation after so short a time in journalism . |
| 14 | Was it because he had no hope that he had lasted so short a time ? |
| 15 | Since Brusilov had not concentrated his troops in any one area , nor made tactical probes , and since the artillery bombardment lasted so short a time , the Austrians had no inkling of his intentions . |
| 16 | Despite all the obvious practical difficulties that Edward encountered in maintaining the siege , its abandonment after so short a time must raise questions about the extent of his commitment , even at this stage of the war , to the French throne . |
| 17 | Therefore , if the origin of the phenomenon is as recent as the late eighteenth century , it is difficult to explain how it could have become so geographically widespread in so short a time : it was already highly salient and overtly stigmatized by the latter half of the nineteenth century ( for some citations see Phillipps , 1984 , 136–9 ) . |
| 18 | It was a triumph of planning in so short a time for so complicated a matter , most of it carried through in most places within a year or two years of the passing of the act . |
| 19 | If the interval during which he kept his eyes closed was very short , say one second , he could maintain that we could not have exchanged our places in so short a time and invoke the laws of physics in support of his view . |
| 20 | So much change , in so short a time ; Pete felt as if he 'd aged more in ten weeks than in the ten years that had gone before . |
| 21 | I would remember , against my will , the fragrance of coffee and hot bread , the energy that had possessed me so short a time ago , when I had felt supple as an eel , as powerful as a salmon , as sure and quiet and graceful as an owl . |
| 22 | So short a time ago ? |
| 23 | I suppose the defendant thought he had some benefit ; at any rate , there is a detriment to the plaintiff from his parting with the possession for even so short a time . |
| 24 | So short a time , Charlotte realised with a shock , that he could not possibly have returned home in the meantime , since he was a close neighbour of the Bodens , who lived ten miles from Aurae Phiala . |
| 25 | Strange , she had been in Denmark for so short a time yet in those few days she had learned so much , not only about herself but about a country she had never even considered visiting before Suzie 's escapade . |
| 26 | How could she have possibly imagined how dramatically her feelings towards him would have changed in so short a time ? |
| 27 | And here she is , so short a time after , widowed and childless , with nothing gained and much lost . |
| 28 | I knew her so short a time . ’ |
| 29 | Could one fall in love in so short a time ? |
| 30 | Rarely can there have been so many upheavals in the landscape in so short a time . |