"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
1. well short = bardzo krótki well short
  • Other changes at the Met stop well short of revolution.
  • The vote today to end debate was 41 against and 54 in favor, well short of the 60 required.
  • "My own interest would stop well short of $1 million," the executive said.
  • Another one followed, still dropping well short of their position.
  • The decisions adopted here fall well short of what is needed.
  • After a strong first year, it drew well short of that for several years.
  • From there he hit a 2-iron well short of the green.
  • Also, the benefits may fall well short of your lost income.
  • But both his and the team's performance fell well short of this goal.
  • Such benefits, they found, fall well short of the costs.
(10) increasingly, progressively
Kolokacji: 2
(13) blessedly, damned
Kolokacji: 2
short + preposición
Kolokacji: 12
short of • short on • short for • short by • short in • ...

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