adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
very
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It was very short-lived but at the time it was a bit of a shock.
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The boom period ensured that every prairie city had two and sometimes three stations, some of them very short-lived indeed.
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Kennedy was only briefly in office and even Lyndon Johnson's famed mastery of congress was very short-lived .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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However, the President's popularity may prove to be short-lived .
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They had a passionate but short-lived affair.
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We were glad to be home, but our happiness was short-lived .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the slowest sales came for the short-lived candidacy of Sen.
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But the halcyon days were short-lived .
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However, his success was to be short-lived .
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It was very short-lived but at the time it was a bit of a shock.
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That was fairly short-lived and the mill was sold in 1875, following the death of one of the partners.
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Whatever it might have been, it was short-lived so far as James was concerned.