Sentence examples for but very short from inspiring English sources

It is brilliant, but very short: he was ill and had not long to live.

This grassquit has a relatively rounded body, a short tail, and a thick but very short bill.

WINE LIST: An acceptable but very short list (about 40 wines), modestly priced, with 11 by the glass.

A further step is to split all but very short messages into a series of standard-length message packets.

In particular, they raised three-month interbank rates, indicating their reluctance to lend to each other for anything but very short periods.

They looked a bit like stocks, but very short ones, with lightly scented double blossoms in shades of pink and white.

These large but very short-billed hummingbirds live at high elevations in stunted woodlands or in shrubby areas of montane forests and the páramo.

But a sudden extinction at the end of the Ordovician has been linked with a severe but very short-lived episode of glaciation.

It's still not too late to protect the rest by sharply cutting back on all but very short-term Treasurys and moving carefully back into high-quality contrarian stocks.

Amusingly, perhaps anticipating the preferred but very short-sighted spin of the pols, whomever wrote the first set of CIA talking points described the Benghazi attack as, wait for it, a protest gone wrong.

Field trials in adults revealed high but very short-term protection (71% during first 2 months) [ 101], but further trials demonstrated only partial protection (32% over 6 months) [ 102].