Many had gathered for hours, clad in orange, the royal color, to watch the brief, long-planned and relatively low-key event on large television screens.
The Germans' once-feared Junkers Ju 87 "Stuka" dive-bomber was even more vulnerable to being shot down, and their premier fighter the Messerschmitt Bf 109 could provide only brief long-range cover for the bombers, since it was operating at the limit of its flying range.
This brief, long-overdue book is for readers still willing to buy into Ms. Ephron's familiar writing persona: that of a sharp, funny, theatrically domesticated New Yorker who can throw both arrows and good money at the petty things that plague her.
It is notable that the patterns were very brief (longest figure duration was 7 chords or 350 ms), yet very high levels of performance were observed (and without extensive practice).
Use of Medicare-funded services: number of GP consultations (brief, standard, long and prolonged), proportion of consultations that are long or prolonged, MBS benefits and out-of-pocket costs and PBS benefits and out-of-pocket costs.
GP provider-level predictor variables will include: vocational registration; number of 45 and Up Study participants using this provider, annual number of consultations (brief, standard, long and prolonged); proportion of consultations that are long or prolonged.
The overlap was brief, just long enough to suit the dimensions of a pop song.
Frills were handled with equal ease, just rivulets of silken fabric running down the front of brief or long dresses.
The Libyan stop was brief, just long enough for a British-born woman, Patricia Martel, to pretend she was having a miscarriage and get herself released from the plane.
Swofford's war was brief, but long enough for him to nearly be killed several times, and for him to witness the horrid slaughter of the overmatched Iraqi forces.
