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The phrase "brief hold" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used to describe a short period of time where something is paused or put on hold. Example: "The meeting will be on a brief hold while we wait for the guest speaker to arrive."
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But Battle Of Marengo, too, had only a brief hold on first place.
Poland's new government tonight stripped a savvy pig farmer turned populist politician, Andrzej Lepper, of his brief hold on official power, demoting him from his post of deputy speaker of the Parliament.
A3 Populist Demoted in Poland The new government stripped a populist politician, Andrzej Lepper, of his brief hold on official power, demoting him from deputy speaker of the Parliament after a fight over joining the European Union.
We have just run the gamut of English words that the Bush administration used or refused to use in extricating from China 24 servicemembers from detention (suggesting a brief hold in custody, usually on political grounds), internment (longer denial of freedom without imputation of criminality) or captivity (longest, connoting punishment, synonymous with "imprisonment").
When one person volunteered "pineapples," Ramsay was forced to put his call on a brief hold.
Following a brief hold at the top of the Republican pack, the soft-spoken Detroit native saw his poll numbers drop following reports of factually inaccurate anecdotes he told on the campaign trail.
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And although high-frequency trading always involves very brief holding periods and very active trading, it breaks down into lots of different strategies.
For years the immigration jail, on the fourth floor of a federal office building at Varick and Houston Streets, was supposed to be a brief holding place for New York detainees.
6.17pm: Several hours after a brief holding statement, News Corporation has issued its formal response to the culture select committee's damning report on Rupert and James Murdoch's handling of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.
It is the brief holding time of a few ten milliseconds first at state '1' due to a short circuit in a transmission line, followed by another brief holding time of a few ten milliseconds at state '3' due to a relay false trip that causes the rotor angles to depart.
The delay resulted in his being a brief hold-out from Florida's training camp in advance of the 2001 02 season.
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