You have to make a decision on what course of action to take for a patient in a relatively short period of time.

For that short period of time, he began thinking - maybe he had done something big after all.

Few entertainers could have been more successful in such a short period.

He was knocked unconscious for a very short period of time and came round very quickly afterwards.

Last year she got three, totalling £1,900, in one short period.