ARPAsing is around 200 samples, I believe, making it fairly short. Going to second Salem’s English reclist which (in my opinion) sounds better and less scuffed than most ARPAsing banks.
If you want a really quick English bank then go for ARPAsing, but I will warn you that there is a negative stigma in the community due to the amount of voicebanks in that format which are, to put it nicely, low-quality.
DELTA also has some short reclists but the English resources for them are, uh, pretty much nonexistent.
I’m with you on C+V English. I absolutely despise it in every way humanly possible. It makes my blood BOIL.