short notice, on

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Also, at short notice. With little advance warning or time to prepare, as in They told us to be ready to move out on short notice. The noun notice here is used in the sense of “information” or “intelligence.” [Late 1700s]

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How to use short notice, on in a sentence

Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
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As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
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Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
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You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.
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It was a brick wall that we turned into the on-ramp of a highway.
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She observed his pale looks, and the distracted wandering of his eyes; but she would not notice either.
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Sometimes the stems are quite bare; on other occasions they are partly branched; in any case the branches are short.
How to Know the Ferns|S. Leonard Bastin
Many of their cannon balls that fell far short of us, were collected and returned to them with powerful effect.
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He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.
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They are ovoid in shape, and lie in pairs, end to end, often forming short chains.
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