Sentence examples for a brief span from inspiring English sources

During a brief span in the third quarter, the Jets lost the ball twice and the Jaguars once.

Clearly she has in a brief span of time learned to make the camera do her bidding.

Done in faux Las Vegas style, grandiose wedding sets stretch across the nearby cricket grounds for a brief span and then are dismantled overnight.

"For a brief span of years," a narrator says of her daughter, "she will be perfect: old enough to capture men's lust, young enough to rouse women's sympathy".

They cannot be more than a few hundred thousand years old, a brief span in cosmic terms, or else they would have disintegrated by now.

She was probably best remembered for her conceptualist works: colour diptychs and triptychs depicting street photography, notably the whizzing by of vehicles in a brief span of time.

The director Khalik Allah's documentary "Black Mother" (April 4 and April 7) pursues a similarly grand idea in a briefer span.

Can we pick out a briefer span – or even an instant – within the duration of the specious present as the present?

Cameron, Lane writes, "conducted herself as if wishing to prove, to the relevant authorities, that a single lifetime was an insultingly brief span, in the light of all that needed and begged to be achieved".

Born days before Napoleon's final defeat, in 1815, and dying a few weeks before the birth of Einstein, in 1879, she conducted herself as if wishing to prove, to the relevant authorities, that a single lifetime was an insultingly brief span, in the light of all that needed and begged to be achieved.

A mercifully brief span of attention is paid to critical questions: Whose turn to take out the garbage?