The phrase "a brief questioning" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a short or concise inquiry or interrogation about a specific topic or issue.
Example: "The detective conducted a brief questioning of the witnesses to gather essential information about the incident."
Alternatives: "a short inquiry" or "a quick interrogation".
Your correspondent was stopped several hundred metres away from the entrance to one of them, Sera, and was taken to a police station for brief questioning and inspection of documents before being released.
The Border Patrol's routine stopping of a vehicle at a permanent checkpoint located on a major highway away from the Mexican border for brief questioning of the vehicle's occupants is consistent with the Fourth Amendment, and the stops and questioning may be made at reasonably located checkpoints in the absence of any individualized suspicion that the particular vehicle contains illegal aliens.
When he submitted to a brief, rare questioning by journalists, Mr. Obiang denied that large amounts of his country's oil wealth had been stashed in bank accounts abroad and defended his long rule, saying, "My country is democratic".
But after Mr. Newman's lawyer called an F.B.I. agent to the stand for brief questioning about the government's investigation.
Some have been detained for brief questioning; others have disappeared for months without a trace.
After brief questioning, the boy admitted that he had the device and turned it over to officers, who removed it, the police said.
After brief questioning, Tensing attempts to open the door to DuBose's car, while asking him to unbuckle his seatbelt.
Several ambassadors who represent their countries on the UN Security Council -- namely China, Malaysia and Venezuela, each experiencing varying degrees of tension with the US -- said in brief questioning that the topic of racial discrimination or racial violence in America has not come up in council meetings.
Alcohol, tobacco, caffeine use and misuse of anxiolytics, night sedation and analgesics were discussed in dialogue that varied from brief questioning (Example 1) to more comprehensive screening, discussion and advice (Example 2).
