This means that the new government is likely to have a very short life.

BBC: Bumpy ride ahead for Italy after indecisive election

It has a very short half-life, which in practical terms means that it goes in and out of the body very quickly.

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She faced both affection and loathing during her few short years in the public eye, before her life was tragically cut short at a very young age.

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Jonathan Phillips, chairman of North Yorkshire Safeguarding Adults Board, said the case was unusual "in that it focuses on a very short period of the man's life and that his involvement took place over the extended Christmas and New Year holiday period".

BBC: Homeless man dead in Harrogate hotel room for four days

Mr. ZAYER: The look on their life here as an occasional, only for a very short time.

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If nothing else, it's going to inject some new life into a product niche that until very recently had just started to look boring and short on new ideas.

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"I think he probably wondered if he would live longer than his father and I think he probably felt that life was not very secure, that I have to get a lot done in a short period of time, " he tells CNN.

CNN: Valery Gergiev: Russian maestro

Bill McGuire, professor of geophysical hazards at University College London, has written a book entitled Global Catastrophes: A Very Short Introduction in which he calculates the size of objects big enough, if they struck Earth, to end life as we know it.

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