Sentence examples for may be very short from inspiring English sources

Stammen's stint may be very short.

(2) The interval between the original and the earliest surviving copies may be very short (e.g., the French medieval poet Chrétien de Troyes) or very long (e.g., the Attic tragedians).

The area of admissible subject matters may be very restrictive; the number of signatures required for qualifying an initiative for a ballot vote may range from about 1% to one-third of eligible voters; and the time allowed for collecting signatures may be very short.

The postictal phase may be very short or last for several hours to days.

Especially in the metastatic setting, where expected survival time may be very short, the use of drug combinations or sequential use of multiple drug classes is commonplace.

Contacts are also needed for prescription renewals or other administrative acts, and in such cases the real contact with the physician may be very short or even absent.

This rapid interrogation, known as tactical questioning (or TQ - so named because it often took place where the suspect was captured) is aimed at getting some nugget of information that may be very short-lived in its usefulness.

Stephens may be very smart, in short.

Our future may be uncertain and destined to be very short and feature lots of boiling lava blasts and homicidal angels, but one thing is certain: the end-of-the-world genre is currently booming like a nuked metropolis, and so we all might as well get in on the action.

"In the short term it may be very expensive to short, but the risk is to the downside from here," said Mr. Schuster, who decided not to buy any shares on Friday.

When precipitation occurs, it may be very heavy for short periods.