Sentence examples for quit short from inspiring English sources

When he stopped for a rest, a physician examined him and pronounced him in "pretty good shape" except for a slight fever, but the rest threw Gus off his stride and he quit short of the 100-cup goal he had set.

If drivers are going to quit short of their mark, we forsee the end of the taxi business... It's just a matter of time before you climb into a cab at 72nd, headed for Lewis & Conger to buy a dust cover for a garment hanger, and just as you get abreast the Plaza the driver will ask you to walk the rest of the way.

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WOULD QUIT SHORT LINES.; Boston & Maine Holds Routes Cause Heavy Losses.

Bold represents statistically significant figures at the 95% confidence level, or Q statistic finds no heterogeneity Models 4-6 appliedlied to the data where former drinkers who have just quit (shortest recorded cessation period) are used as the reference group and all other former drinker categories of longer duration are compared to this group.

Some will call it quits short of their usual terminus.

Enever felt so strongly about it he walked out and the vice-chairman Darren Fletcher quit a short time later.

Reducing Exposure An important control measure is for those who smoke to quit, or, short of quitting, confine all smoking to the outdoors, where the pollutants can be diluted by the general atmosphere.

McCutchan retired after the 1976-77 season as Evansville planned its move to Division I. Sloan replaced him but quit a short time later, without giving a detailed explanation.

Though his network is mainly French, there is spillover, and he got a call from George Cohen, manager of L'ufficio on Mulberry Street in Little Italy, whose chef had quit on short notice.

Pietersen hinted on Friday that talks had begun which could see him reverse his decision to quit the short forms of the game.