Sentence examples for unexpectedly short from inspiring English sources

His visit was to prove unexpectedly short (seven months), but consequential.

The cafe has an unexpectedly good selection of Spanish wines and an unexpectedly short selection of Italian offerings.

The unexpectedly short sentence came after Mr. Hamdan was acquitted Wednesday of the most serious charge against him, conspiracy, having been convicted only of material support for terrorism.

Double AA was unexpectedly short 24 drivers at the start of the school year, but has hired more drivers and used company staff to cover all its runs.

If, while builders anxiously wait for the rains to end, aid falls unexpectedly short, the easy option is to shelve the plans.This would be less damaging if, during aid windfalls, poor countries made up for the foregone investment but they do not.

Seven cases are reviewed where travel times were found to be unexpectedly short.

Alison's debut attracted no attention from the literary establishment until it was unexpectedly short-listed for the women-only Orange Prize.

For these, the unexpectedly shorter T1C is attributed to defects such as methyl end-groups within the crystalline regions.

Unexpectedly, short-term CR increases this potential; moreover long-term CR increases it further (Chen et al. 2003 ) (Fig.  4 c).

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In fact, farewells after lunch were unexpectedly cut short by an incoming call from Putin.