The theme park is easily manageable in a half-day, and queues are startlingly short.

But go further they did, and in a startlingly short time.

Despite a short but costly advertising campaign, sales of the nasal spray flu vaccine, known as FluMist, have fallen startlingly short of projections.

He was stocky with a startlingly short neck; in fact his head seemed to fit directly on to his shoulders.

In Prague's case, the historical integrity is vanishing in a startlingly short time.

The movie was financed, set up and filmed - on location in England and Italy - in the startlingly short space of four months.

Liberals can accept the reality that although sentences may be long, time served in jail can be startlingly short.

Over a startlingly short decade in the international arena, supremacy gave way to superiority and then to survival and finally submission.

Songs ventured forward, built and dispersed; some were startlingly short and tossed off, others dreamily long and intense.

The whole ascent, from base camp to base camp was done in 53 hours, a startlingly short time for a major Himalayan ascent in that era.