The phrase "a brief event" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an occurrence or happening that lasts for a short duration.
Example: "The conference included a brief event to introduce the keynote speaker."
Alternatives: "a short occurrence" or "a quick happening."
Mrs. Clinton's schedule for that period shows a brief event arranged by the American consulate at the Lamp Lighter Café in Belfast.
With prolonged exposure, you're at greater risk, but even a brief event — reading one tweet or watching a video clip — can affect behavior.
Like an angel dancing on the head of a pin, Nicola Barker takes a brief event in the crowded capital and uses it to swoop and whirl, to prance and pirouette.
But the day itself began with a positive act of remembrance; a brief event to remember Elena Baltacha, the former British No1 who died of liver cancer aged 30 in May.
During a brief event in the White House Rose Garden, Bush said he was asking for rules to "cut gasoline consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles". The regulations, he said, should be consistent with his previously announced plan to reduce projected gasoline consumption by 20percentt over the next decade.
Ten seconds of SCE may be considered a brief event during which subjects pedaled at maximal velocities against resistances determined during a force-velocity test [26, 27].
A briefing event was held at each school and all Year 6 pupils were invited to participate in a study examining parents and children's physical activity patterns.
To be fair, The Kiss was a pretty brief event.
Likewise, nicotinic activation of GABA neurons (either local inhibitory interneurons or collaterals of projection neurons (Garzon et al. 1999 and possibly GABA neurons that project back to the PPTg, Laviolette and Van der Kooy 2004) will generate inhibitory activity, though because of rapid desensitization this is likely to be only a relatively brief event (Mansvelder et al. 2002).
Altogether theses results showed that the time period of sensitivity to endothelins of NCC-derived neurons is a very early and brief event as the maximum effect happened between 43 and 58 h after incubation.
In a brief, scary event, dense memories are laid down — and so it seems longer in retrospect.
