short-run

As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

Everybody is trapped in an elevator together and tempers run a little hot.

Using standard methods, the cost of printing DNA could run upwards of a billion dollars or more, depending on the strand.

Should lightning strike and Hillary Clinton forgoes a presidential run, Democrats have a nominee in waiting.

The decision not to run the cartoons is motivated by nothing more than fear: either fear of offending or fear of retaliation.

Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?

A few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.

Sometimes the stems are quite bare; on other occasions they are partly branched; in any case the branches are short.

Many of their cannon balls that fell far short of us, were collected and returned to them with powerful effect.

But if what I told him were true, he was still at a loss how a kingdom could run out of its estate like a private person.