short stretch

collocation in English

meaningsofshortandstretch

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short
adjective
uk
/ʃɔːt/us
/ʃɔːrt/
small in length, distance, ...
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stretch
noun
uk
/stretʃ/us
/stretʃ/
a continuous area of land ...
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(Definition ofshortandstretchfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofshort stretch

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This article reviews the use ofshortstretchbandages against multi-layer bandaging for venous leg ulcers.
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How to get from space to place in a fairlyshortstretchof time.
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How to get from space to place in a fairlyshortstretchof time: phenomenological prolegomena.
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It works by decomposing economic and social interaction into discrete games, each involving a relatively small number of individuals and occupying a relativelyshortstretchof time.
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One gets an immense concentration of traffic in theshortstretchalong the main shopping street.
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This was a scheme for building a veryshortstretchof trunk road.
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Every quarter in ashortstretchof that street eight or nine boards are put up offering flats to let.
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Adjoining the southernmost of these bastions and to the south of it ashortstretchof wall was also scheduled.
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Thatshortstretchof dual carriageway is a death trap, because there is motorway either side.
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There will also be ashortstretchof six-lane highway.
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The major source of tunnel revenue will be traffic using our roads and thatshortstretchof tunnel as a rolling motorway.
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Thisshortstretchof country, less than 40 miles across in places, is one of the best areas we have.
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In oneshortstretchof road you find three or four different types of repairs going on.
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And these sentences do not deter career burglars for whom the occasionalshortstretchin prison has become an acceptable occupational hazard.
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I have seen it develop over the years from a little-travelledshortstretchinto its present state—absolutely burgeoning.
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All the solutions that we have considered are fairly expensive for such ashortstretchof road—between £2·45 million and £3·17 million.
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One then comes to ashortstretchof dual carriageway when everyone makes a rush to overtake the slow-moving lead vehicles.
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Of course, it was needed, but it is a lamentablyshortstretchof trunk road.
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First, the cost of running the ferry across theshortstretchof water will inrease as fuel costs increase.
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Those sentences do not deter career burglars for whom the occasionalshortstretchin prison has become an acceptable occupational hazard.
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