short measure
Example Sentences
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When we talked over coffee last Thursday morning, we moved from the merits of dumbphones to intense, existential topics in short measure.
From The Verge • Mar. 23, 2016
With another golf piece, written for the Talk of the Town section in 2000, the New Yorker for once received short measure from a favoured son.
From The Guardian • May 24, 2012
And instead of going even a short measure towards healing the open emotional wounds of its inhabitants, the stark concrete and steel fabric of Wormwood Scrubs aggravates and exacerbates them.
From The Guardian • May 18, 2010
Thus the worker has paid one high price for yesterday's technology and will have to pay another for tomorrow's; meanwhile, he has received a short measure of the promised benefits.
From Time Magazine Archive
And just when it had finished the very last little halfpenny worth, which was short measure, because the milkman's nerves were quite upset, the Red Dragon came down the street looking for the Manticora.
From The Book of Dragons by Fell, H. Granville
