Sentence examples for a brief portion of from inspiring English sources

B. B. King, appearing after 1 a.m. as the headliner, offered only a brief portion of his joyfully exasperated vocals and cutting guitar solos.

It caused him to miss most of the preseason, a brief portion of the Giants' 35-13 loss to the Green Bay Packers 10 days ago and nearly all of practice last week.

The muted celebration of progress was tempered -- as are all events at the trade center site -- by the inescapable shadow of 2,749 lost lives, including that of Officer Clinton Davis of the Port Authority Police Department, whose 13-year-old son, Julian, read a brief portion of the Declaration of Independence from the dais.

As can be seen from our chordate examples, most of the characters that define the chordate body plan are transitory and are only present during a brief portion of the embryonic period.

A brief portion of this study focused on ternary blends of nylon 6, maleated polyethylene and nonmaleated polyethylene; in general, the impact properties of these blends improved as the nylon 6 molecular weight increased and as the ratio of maleated polyethylene to nonmaleated polyethylene increased.

The museum has interactive video displays that allowed you to push a button, hear a story and watch a brief portion of an interview.

During the brief portion of the meeting where shareholders could present proposals, criticisms were strong.

The primary guides are often family men, and while I'm not a relative, they tend to treat me like one, acting like a father, brother, or uncle for brief portions of the trip.

Brief portions of those deleted scenes were interwoven into short montage sequences that played along with dialogue from the documentary-style interviews conducted within the episode with the characters.

In particular, experiments asking listeners to identify vowel quality for syllables that lack any steady-state or even target formant frequencies have shown that listeners can do so with only very brief portions of formant transitions at each syllable margin (Jenkins, Strange, & Edman, 1983; Strange, Jenkins, & Johnson, 1983).

Under the health care "policy briefing" portion of his campaign website, he stressed that his approach was one "that values the states as laboratories of innovation and beacons of creativity".