Sentence examples for become brief from inspiring English sources

For luckier Israelis, vacations abroad had become brief respites from the constant stress of life in the slender but ever-present shadow of death.

He also helped his brother, Simion Movilă to become brief ruler of Wallachia, thus spreading the influence of the Commonwealth to the Central Danube.

Thus, the periods of gamma activity become briefer with stronger alpha.

Indeed, it was also very influential for alcohol treatment, leading treatments thereafter to become briefer and offered in out-patient settings.

There's some musicals, some vaudeville, some properly upsetting tragedies; one of the plays became Brief Encounter".

On one hand the one-piece made a big comeback in the 1980s and early 1990s, on the other bikinis became briefer with the string bikini in the 1970s and 80s.

"His responses become very brief.

Matthews said that in most other areas, the season will eventually become too brief to justify making natural rinks.

Sport, slightly bizarrely in Olympics year, has become a brief interlude in the weeks and weeks and weeks of Cultural Olympiad shows, exhibitions and mini-festivals that owe their existence to the Olympics.

The director was outwardly an establishment figure, knighted while the play was in pre-production; the playwright had been categorised by theatre critics as a Marxist (although he disliked such easy and pejorative labels) and a previous piece - The Churchill Play, which questioned the status of a national hero - had become a brief media scandal.

Is there a point at which these measures become too brief to be meaningful?