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How to use short of in a sentence

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Larsson will be still four months short of his 33rd birthday when his current deal ends.
Naturally one has to stop short of suggesting that the BBC's figures have been massaged.
We are selling about 200 cattle each week and just short of 2,000 hoggs and lambs which is a good indicator of the demand.
Believed to be crammed with as many as 10,000 inmates at any given time, Insein is perennially short of bare essential supplies.
As a result, though, the service was excellent, and we were never short of a pair of hands to refill our water glasses.
Edinburgh has created 50 training places in primary schools and 48 in secondaries, but each figure is about 25 short of the number required.
Many of the additional offerings are B-sides from the singles which, as might be expected, fall short of the standard set by the original tracks.
Add to this a splash of bright colour and the result is nothing short of arresting.
Concerning the question of optical aids, there is a possible answer well short of the use of lenses, mirrors, or a pinhole camera obscura.
In all the pieces, the 12 squares are subdivided into four equal sections by painted lines that stop short of the middle.
Their songs were born to dwell in long-lost cabarets and quaint bars that fall just short of seediness.
Also, the reds are not short of adventurous alternatives to the obvious Cabernet Sauvignon or Pinot Noir.
Sadly, the cronies and party hacks who now fill his Cabinet and backroom offices fall some way short of that ideal.
Main species on the market were haddock and cod, which were met with a good demand on a market that had been short of fish for a lengthy period.
The weather was poor, and Henry's army was short of provisions, exhausted, and badly stricken with dysentery.
Often, such literature is not hagiography, but presents life that falls short of human virtues.
If given the go-ahead, the building would stand just 60 ft short of One Canada Square in Canary Wharf.
They took the score to 135 before Brierley was bowled by Taylor only two short of what would have been his first half-century of the season.
One such case is said to be Sir James Barrie who was short of stature and may have had some affinity with his creation, Peter Pan.
Gravel of voice, short of word and tall of stature, the meanest bass player in Christendom.
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