Sentence examples for a brief phase of from inspiring English sources

Sir Alan now sees "Man of the Moment" as part of a brief phase of "social" plays at the end of the 1980s.

Randy is a restaurateur who has hair like Michael Landon's, keeps a photograph of Soupy Sales over his desk and went through a brief phase of fashioning himself after Pierce Brosnan.

This show from the mid-1970's, depicting tortured dogs and those gone bad, mad and savage, represents only a brief phase of his work, after his palette had turned exclusively to black, gray and white, and he had abandoned the mix of Pop and Surrealism that had been his style since the mid-1960's.

Except for a brief phase of streamlining in the mid-1960's, when he was included in "Primary Structures," an early exhibition of Minimal Art at the Jewish Museum, he spent most of his career exploring the clearly hand-wrought surfaces and figure-ground relationships introduced by the Abstract Expressionists.

The ponded stratigraphic section at Macaroni Field records (1) an early mud-rich phase in which incoming flows are completely captured by confining topography, (2) a brief phase of diminished relief when high frequency fill/spill cycles occur, and ultimately (3) a phase of incision of the former basin sill and large-scale bypass to the outboard basin.

I also read Trainspotting when I was 17 and went through a brief phase of Irn-Bru and heroin addiction.

For a relatively brief phase of their history —what we think of now as the classical era, from around the start of the First World War until a few years after the end of the Second — moving pictures were confined to theaters, some of which were as ornate as palaces and vast as cathedrals.

(There was a brief phase a while ago when some batches of the Quicks were themed – dogs, birds, plays by Shakespeare etc – but that was clearly unpopular and stopped).

It does not seem implausible to suppose the same holds more generally: does not each brief phase of a typical stream of consciousness seem to merge smoothly and seamlessly with its successor?

Patrika seems to have tided over its brief phase of partisanship.

This speculation is based on insights gained from the concept of inflation -- the brief phase of explosive expansion early on in the universe's evolution, and from string theory.