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Example sentences for "short period"

  • The five days at Roclincourt West Camp were succeeded by a short period in Brigade support, in which position the Battalion relieved the Kensingtons on the 5th March.

  • The German attacks finally exhausted themselves by April 5th, after which date there was a short period of trench warfare.

  • Some cases are on record of fatal hemorrhage but a short period before a proposed operation could have been performed.

  • Most of those who suffer from syphilitic iritis are infants born within a short period of the date of the primary disease in their parents.

  • Wrapping supplies in two layers of plastic material provides protection from most agents for a short period of time; the thicker the plastic material, the longer the protection.

  • Additional HSS personnel and equipment must be provided in a short period of time if the level of care is to be maintained.

  • Large numbers of casualties are produced in a short period of time.

  • Canvas will keep out more than 95 percent of liquid contamination for a short period of time after the attack.

  • Here is another result of vast importance derivable from Indian corn; and we can well conceive that, in a short period of time, the advantages now derived from the production of corn starch, may have grown into a national benefit.

  • It follows that, however long the period of a comet may be, there is a possibility of its becoming one of short period if it approaches Jupiter.

  • If [delta] is a considerable negative fraction, the eccentricity will be so reduced that the comet will after the approach be one of short period.

  • As the orbits of all the bodies of the solar system are subject to a slow secular change of their form and position, this may only show that it must have been thousands of years since the comet became one of short period.

  • According to the German usage, his family sent him to many Universities, and thus he spent a short period successively at Goettingen, Berlin, Heidelberg, and Munich.

  • After a short period at the tribunal of Paderborn, and having been referendary successively at Muenster and Erfurt, he retired for over a year to study for his degree.

  • In this way fully one thousand seven hundred fell in a short period of a few months.

  • It must not be imagined that, in the above sketch of the occurrences of a short period, I have given an account of all, or even the greater part, of the mutations which the earth has undergone by the agency of subterranean movements.

  • For instance, the sun will be eclipsed within a short period.

  • But many pharaohs reigned for a short period only, and of some not merely the deeds, but the names disappeared from record.

  • Ten years is a short period; after that not only can ye regain your ancient place, but ye can save us.

  • Then they went half a mile farther, where they made a fire, set their compass, and, after a short period of rest, took to the route again and travelled all night.

  • He strove to bring resolution to his aid, and to fix his thoughts on a happier state of existence beyond this earth, the contemplation of which might aid him to bear without flinching, a short period of excruciating pain.

  • The devoted band now had a short period of rest, the British being discouraged and depressed.

  • At the end of January, after a short period of improvement, he again had ideas of being poisoned, and had dream-like, unclear thoughts.

  • Rows believes that those cases which do not recover after a short period of rest and quiet in hospital are cases in which there is some emotional state based upon the constant intrusion of the memory of some past event.

  • Once, however, he had a spell of intense psycho-motor agitation, brought on without any known cause and followed by a short period of bewilderment, lasting altogether half an hour.

  • After a short period of teaching, she became a newspaper writer and contributed to various periodicals and syndicates.

  • A short period elapsed, passed restlessly by Ahmad, when the voice was again raised within the gate.

  • At present, I have not," the Commissioner replied, after a short period of reflection.

  • Chapter II THE HOUR AT HAND In a shaded room of the palace, the Rani had cast herself upon a low divan to obtain a short period of rest.

  • A short period of confusion ensued as the nobles hurriedly sought their horses, and the soldiers pressed back the throng surging about the palace.

  • Eschenhagen[53] observed a great variety of short period waves, 30 seconds being amongst the most common.

  • If only a short period of years is dealt with, irregularities in the secular change from year to year, or errors of observation, may obviously simulate the effect of a real annual inequality.

  • I verily believe that bold and energetic measures might set this question at rest for ever, but time lost is lost for ever; and, in my opinion, retribution can only slumber for a short period.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    going ashore; its form; save that; short account; short and; short circuit; short distance; short distance above the; short distances; short flight; short intervals; short laugh; short life; short pause; short period; short prayer; short rations; short rest; short section; short silence; short stay; short stories; short story; short tail; short visit; sour cream