"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
2. woefully short = żałośnie krótki woefully short
  • You don't need to agree with every decimal point of these forecasts to see how woefully short such responses fall.
  • James River is woefully short of people who understand that.
  • Attendance figures throughout that decade were woefully short of expectations.
  • Some programs came close to exceeding certain goals while other plans fell woefully short.
  • The concrete details that would help pin down matters to a specific period and place are in woefully short supply.
  • All sides in the debate agree that bilingual education has fallen woefully short of its promise.
  • But your group sold the children's budget woefully short.
  • There were so many that the air was constantly full of arrows, all falling woefully short.
  • We're woefully short of material on that sort of thing.
  • Aid agencies need food supplies for 3 million people over the next six months, but funding is woefully short.
3. awfully short = strasznie krótki awfully short
4. terribly short = szalenie krótki terribly short
5. painfully short = nieznośnie krótki painfully short
6. brutally short = brutalnie krótki brutally short
7. fashionably short = modnie krótki fashionably short
8. embarrassingly short = w sposób żenujący krótki embarrassingly short
9. distressingly short = niepokojąco krótki distressingly short
(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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