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‘A period can be short.’

[⟨det period.n⟩ short.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

It’s my friends birthday in a very short period of time and I would really, really like to make her a TARDIS birthday card, but simple don’t have the time to wade through all the old entries looking for how people made them.
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In the British National Corpus:

The Government warned that it would apply only for a short period.
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In Wikipedia:

Quarantine periods can be very short, such as in the case of a suspected anthrax attack, in which persons are allowed to leave as soon as they shed their potentially contaminated garments and undergo a decontamination shower.
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In the British National Corpus:

In some policies the two problems are seen to be combined where the systems of farming collectively called shifting cultivation have reached a point where their carrying capacity has been exceeded, and fallow periods have become so short that degradation and erosion have set in (Allan 1967).
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In Wikipedia:

For a short period he returned to Murcia in 1962 to decorate the dome of the Sanctuary of Fuensanta.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The incubation period is fairly short, and we don’t come into close contact with people from countries where there are still diptheria outbreaks.
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In Wikipedia:

The signal received from satellites in Earth orbit are relatively strong but view periods are short; a few minutes being typical.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

As seen from the amazing back test results, this forex trader is believed to have made you richer by US $ 18,000 for a short period of 9 days or US $ 3,35,000 for a long duration of 1 Year with standard US $ 25,000 account.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

After exposure, the incubation period from nothing to hysteria was short, from a few hours to a couple of days.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I’m not defending the use of judgment, I’m expressing that most humans probably believe we’ve come a long way in a relatively short period of time.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Ever wish you could rent a car for a short period of time without having to pay for the whole day?
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In Wikipedia:

The transitional period from summer to winter temperatures can be very short.
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In the British National Corpus:

On the face of it this is unlikely to be acceptable to the vendor since in effect it gives an option to purchase, though it may be more acceptable if the period allowed for preparing the report is short.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

To our knowledge, six other countries (Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, Japan, and the United Kingdom) have sex offender registration laws, but the period required for registration is usually short and the information remains with the police.
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In Wikipedia:

For a short period of time, the ownership of the library belonged to Amos Eaton, a local scientist and educator, when he obtained rights to the Old Bank Place after the Rensselaer School changed its name to the Rensselaer Institute and moved to Van Der Heyden Mansion, a nearby location.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Sure it means I can watch it all in a short period of time, which I did, though it also means people are more over talking about it.
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In the British National Corpus:

Sigismund III of Poland actually enticed Marenzio to his new capital at Warsaw for a short period in 1595-6 and employed a number of Italian musicians, one of whom, Asprilio Pacelli (1570-1623), published a book of madrigals (Venice, 1601); but that was all.
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In Wikipedia:

The period of time suitable for the growth of vegetation is therefore very short and for the above – mentioned reasons, the land is dry most of the time.
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One of them was Barrington Reynolds, who commanded her for a short period in 1812, between his commands of HMS “Sir Francis Drake” and HMS “Bucephalus”.
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Queried on 2013-05-25.