"a brief passing" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a short period of time, especially when something happened or was experienced briefly. For example, "Mary stopped by for a brief passing, but she didn't stay long."
If time expands in Vermeer's painting of longing, this photograph preserves the fragility of a brief passing joy.
Every now and then, usually on quick notes in a moving melody, the box guesses wrong about a chord, and you get a brief, passing moment of dissonance.
When everyone had disembarked in Hoboken -- and after a brief passing thought about a crab dinner -- I took pity on the creature.
This scenario isn't just a brief passing of the torch moment either.
I just hope that we can all work to ensure that it is a brief passing phase on the march towards human rights, rather than something permanent". .
They also neglected to mention that the NFL just hired four female advisors to shape their new domestic violence policies, leaving it a brief passing scroll on the "Bottom Line".
At the start of February 2015, the Kenyan Ministry of Health received a letter from the president's office, requesting a meeting to "come up with a common understanding" on the new regulations and to discuss concerns listed in a briefing passed on from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
And second that they all seem to operate on Lasnet's seize-the-day sentiment, that everything is borrowed: not just my family's brief passing here but their own lives too.
From your question, it appears you've only experienced brief passing out — associated with mild cases of hypoxia (lack of oxygen to the organs in the body, which can lead to fainting).
Curiously absent in the lengthy Post articles, except in one brief passing scene, is Cheney's ubiquitous shadow in his shadow presidency -- his former chief of staff, I Lewis Scooter Libbyby.
Although in February 2006, we joined Noah Glass and Jack Dorsey in presenting Dorsey's "Twttr" idea to the company behind Odeo (headed up by Ev Williams and Biz Stone) we have heard little from the European who was at the centre of Twitter's earliest development other than brief, passing, mentions.
