Sentence examples for for something shorter from inspiring English sources

When Cardona was sentenced, in 2009, his lawyer pleaded for something shorter than a life sentence.

For something shorter, try David Ellis's experiment in biography, Death and the Author (OUP), which takes a look at DH Lawrence's approach to his own illness and death.

Like expensive cars and great paintings, those prodigious lists are fun to admire, but when it comes to tonight's dinner I'll go for something shorter every time.

But if you're a little impatient and looking for something shorter term, then check out this next one.

I was looking for something short.

Measures: diplomatic speak for something short of something.

Any suggestion to the contrary would mistake his Oklahoma roots, that famous corn, for something short of sophistication.

And his father, himself an ex-athlete, is so determined to make his son succeed that when Andre wins a trophy for sportsmanship (i.e., for something short of winning), his father smashes it to pieces.

Elmar Brok, a German Christian Democratic MEP who until this year chaired the European Parliament's foreign-affairs committee, says it was wrong to open negotiations in the first place, and the more honest course would have been to tell the Turks that they must settle for something short of full membership.

All true secularists would be outraged if it were otherwise.Chris BellHoboken, New JerseyThe legality of warSIR – The conclusion to your leader on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq revealed a blind spot in some otherwise insightful analysis of the prospects that could emerge for something short of victory but better than catastrophe ("Must they be wars without end?", December 15th).

Save for something short of a miracle, or a Britney Spears Vegas-style wedding, I will not be wed by the time I'm 30.