"short" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

short adjetivo

short + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 688
short story • short time • short film • short period • short distance • short term • short supply • short notice • short hair • short run • ...
verbo + short
Kolokacji: 20
fall short • cut short • stop short • grow shorter • run short • sell short • ...
adverbio + short
Kolokacji: 63
relatively short • far short • fairly short • extremely short • slightly shorter • well short • somewhat shorter • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 13
(1) relatively, comparatively
Kolokacji: 2
(4) extremely, exceedingly
Kolokacji: 2
(10) increasingly, progressively
Kolokacji: 2
1. dangerously short = niebezpiecznie krótki dangerously short
2. severely short = poważnie krótki severely short
3. perilously short = niebezpiecznie krótki perilously short
  • That gave Mr. Soderbergh a perilously short eight months to shoot and edit the film before its Dec. 10 release date.
  • By this week, the fighting had blocked access in and out of Jaffna, leaving it perilously short of food staples.
  • Bolan wasn't disgruntled by that fact, but it reminded him that he was running perilously short of time.
  • Time was perilously short.
  • After three weeks in pursuit of the king, Forbes' rations were running perilously short.
  • You don't have to be Camille Paglia to recognise that the step from writer to reader is perilously short.
  • Some entrances have perilously short and/or sharp ramps; some entrances even have stop signs, with no merge lane whatsoever; this leads to some dangerous entrances onto the highway.
  • Its newspaper industry isn't national and is often perilously short on precise market comparisons.
  • Lord Kian's face took on a grim look at Silverleaf s words, for the time was perilously short, and they were yet trapped.
  • Mr President, if I could echo other colleagues from all parties and indeed national groups who have said that the time for talking is now perilously short.
(13) blessedly, damned
Kolokacji: 2
short + preposición
Kolokacji: 12
short of • short on • short for • short by • short in • ...

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