The phrase "a brief new" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe something that is both brief and new, but the construction is awkward and lacks clarity.
Example: "I received a brief new update on the project, but it didn't provide much information."
Alternatives: "a short new" or "a concise new".
You have a Tumblr site where you write a brief new story once a week, inspired by a photograph taken by a collaborator.
As an unannounced finale, there was — at the behest of Damian Woetzel, the Vail festival's artistic director — a brief new dance cooked up by Mr. Wheeldon.
In "Wilkie Collins," a brief new biography (Hesperus; $15.95), Melisa Klimaszewski notes that Collins's reputation has suffered from a tendency among critics to see him as "an inferior protégé of Dickens" — his friend, mentor, editor, and sometime rival.
Anchor Books has brought out a paperback edition of Hooman Majd's 2008 book about Iran, "The Ayatollah Begs to Differ," which adds to the original text a brief new preface about the disputed June 2009 election.
Even gay men, less documented than the women, took advantage of a brief new social permissiveness following the first world war – George Hannah wrote and sang Freakish Man Blues in 1930.
As W. K. Stratton writes in a brief new biography, "Floyd Patterson: The Fighting Life of Boxing's Invisible Champion" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25), Patterson's first prizefight, in 1952 at the St . Nicholas Arenain Manhattan, was the beginning of an extraordinary escape.
("Green Eyes," a negligible two-hander from 1971, recently had a brief New York premiere run Off Broadway).
Campaign officials say that the schedule could still change, and that Mr. Bush may have a brief New York sleepover in the end.
It made a brief New York appearance in 1994 before finding considerable success on the road, and this latest production, which includes among its presenters Theater for a New Audience and the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene, marks its first New York revival.
"All the Way" also was a winner of the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History in February, and the playwright, Mr. Schenkkan, is a Pulitzer Prize winner for "The Kentucky Cycle," which had a brief New York run in 1993.
DAKAR, Senegal — Coordinated assaults on two police stations, a hotel and a restaurant early Tuesday killed at least 10 people, the authorities said, shattering a brief New Year's Day calm in the violent and oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria.
