Sentence examples for been a flash in from inspiring English sources

Could she have been a flash in the pan?

He persevered out of sheer bloody-mindedness – wanting to prove to the doubters, once again, that Suede hadn't been a flash in the pan.

But the received wisdom, before the ONS release on October 26th, was that this had been a flash in the pan: output would rise by a lowly 0.4% in the third quarter, the same rate as in the first three months of the year.For the second time running, the nation's number-crunchers delivered a real surprise.

It was the combination of a book that proved that Indian English was a language in itself, capable of presenting serious and important ideas with vigour and originality (GV Desani had done the same in All About H Hatterr but it had been a flash in the pan and led nowhere), and of the author as a personality, that changed the Indian scene overnight.

Eric Cantona may be recognised at Old Trafford as the catalyst for the modern-day Manchester United, for example, but everyone there knows in their heart that the whole thing would have been a flash in the pan were it not for Roy Keane.

"If we achieve one or both championships this season then without doubt it will put us in a very elite group and demonstrates the success we have had has not been a flash in the pan," he said.

It was a but a blip in the raucous carnival that the Presidential campaign has been, a flash-in-the-pan moment instantly overshadowed by more headline grabbing events.

Being a flash-in-the-pan pop star did not particularly bother her, she said.

Browning here glibly refutes the accusation that he is a flash-in-the pan or an accident.

It was a flash-in-the-pan type picture.

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