"short" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- For Darwin, this estimate was embarrassingly short, although fortunately he did not take it too seriously.
- It was one of the two ill-prepared Tigers that had an embarrassingly short outing at the Le Mans 24 hour race the year before.
- It fell way short of the target, embarrassingly short.
- Two years ago, the Greek economy fell embarrassingly short of the European Union's mimimum standards for membership in the Euro.
- It proved an embarrassingly short defense.
- In an embarrassingly short period of time, she had plowed through half the stack.
- This figures falls embarrassingly short of the £600 million the Government hoped it would save - but there can be no denying it made a difference.
- The Member States fall embarrassingly short of the standard when it comes to international aid.
- Two years ago, the Greek economy fell embarrassingly short of the minimum standards for the euro.
- Without Jimmy, George fails to demonstrate the value of the training shoes to employees at a sneaker store, as his vertical leap is embarrassingly short.
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