Sentence examples for was given a short from inspiring English sources

Murdoch: He said, "I was given a short time and was given like two boxes.

An unscientific sample of Florida voters was given a short word-association test this week.

Each performer was given a short set — sometimes just one song, and never longer than three — but the camaraderie between artists created a strong sense of cohesion on stage.

Mark Ravitz, set designer for the Diamond Dogs tour, was given a short brief – "Fritz Lang's Metropolis, power, Nuremberg" – that showed the ambition of Bowie's imagination, and its darkening hue.

In the mid-1950s, Dicks taught in a school and joined the amateur Mountview theatre club in north London, where he composed his first show, Let's Go Mad, renamed Look Who's Here! when it was given a short run in the West End in 1960.

Mr. Keith was given a short time to absorb about 18,000 pages of court documents, and though he said he was familiar enough with the evidence to proceed when the trial resumed just before Christmas, he asked the court to declare a mistrial on the basis of his not having been present to hear witnesses testify.

It was the coach of his college team, Chris Dowling, who recommended Morgan to Forest, and after a week that turned into a month on trial he was given a short-term contract that came with one clear caveat, even if it was an unwritten one.

The 24-year-old was given a short-term deal in the summer by previous manager Derek McInnes as he looked to put a cruciate ligament injury behind him.

The design team for Storm of Zehir was smaller than that of Mask of the Betrayer and was given a shorter development period.

Dr Monk was giving a short lecture about his research and the workings of subatomic particles when the safari tour guide (played by our physics presenter Steve Mould) burst into the tent to announce an unmissable sight in the next field.

The prefect of Samos laments that "we are given a short bedsheet to cover our body".