Global economies will certainly be impacted by a fundamental disruption--even a short one--in the oil markets.
The Clinton-Vessey meeting in the Oval Office tomorrow ought to be a short one.
Could you just short one of these things to hedge away your pound exposure?
If they don't find their game quickly, their first playoff appearance in six years might be a short one.
Since Suharto bound so many in allegiance, that list is a short one.
Her item was a short one, but it was noticed by several newspapers.
The Foreign Ministry made a statement, which is a very short one, about the promised aid on its web site.
The ball continued to swing sharply, even the bouncers, one short one collected by Mahendra Dhoni in front of first slip.
In the wonderful short One Week, Buster and his wife are dragging their new house across a railroad track (it's a long story).
We need to protect young people and make sure they have a full and productive life, not a nasty, brutal and short one.
The long one produces more transporter-protein molecules than the short one.
After receiving lengthy treatment that continued frequently between overs, Dhoni was given another short one next up, but showed his mettle by hooking it to the boundary.
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This hedge would most likely be done by shorting 10 front-month futures contracts on NYMEX (of 10, 000 barrels each)--thus balancing out the long position with a short one.
The expected fightback was simply not allowed to happen, Pakistan aware that a full ball would zip through with swing and seam but a short one would lose pace and effectiveness.
Mendis was savagely reverse swept for four by Simmons, who also seized on a short one to cut four more when Muttiah Muralitharan came into the attack in the next over.
He was tempted by one short one from Sidebottom, and a lady of mature years showed admirable dexterity to take cover before the ball thudded into the wall above her head.
But a lot of people had wondered whether Rove's fourth appearance here would be just a short one, one to straighten out a few things, maybe clear up just a couple of points.
He had made 11 quite comfortably when he pulled a short one from Butler and Nathan McCullum dived forward to take an outstanding low catch at deep mid-wicket, sliding his fingers along the turf.
But they were to be his only boundaries as the debutant continued with the prize wicket of the Australia captain, who top-edged a short one and wicketkeeper De Villers ran back to pouch the spiralling chance.
Paul Collingwood turned again to Flintoff in the hope of breaking the one Indian partnership of note and his talisman obliged, testing Dhoni with another short one that proved too quick for him and brushed the glove.
England's bowlers stuck gainfully to their task, and as a parting shot Harmison forced Rudolph to fend off a short one and Graham Thorpe got his hand under the ball as it looped to the ground at short-leg.
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Panesar wheeled away with five men round the bat, and Broad - in his 13th consecutive over - ended Grant Elliott's miserable 28-ball stay with another short one the batsman could only top-edge to Ian Bell at short leg.
It struck me that before I could reach the oval mirror in the upstairs hall, I had to pass through the front hall, cross the dusky living room with its sagging couch, walk the length of the kitchen, and climb two sets of creaking stairs, the long one up to the landing and the short one up to the hall.
And, when the rain set in, despite striking 13 fours and three sixes from his 90 balls, that left a frustrated Gatting just one short of that first one-day ton.
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