Sentence examples for brief space of time from inspiring English sources

In that brief space of time thousands of buildings were either damaged or destroyed, and several hundred persons killed.

With the coming of the Euro-Americans, who coveted the rich furs of the region, the control of the great fishing areas and strategic position of the Northwest Coast tribes enabled them to acquire staggering wealth in an extremely brief space of time.

Feel free to congratulate yourself, although don't get carried away – you've still got three minutes and 49 seconds of Abba's Dancing Queen to learn, and trying to replicate the sheer joy and exuberance packed into that brief space of time may prove somewhat trickier.

It would be difficult to solve the problem related to human and time limitations in teaching in a brief space of time.

The participants only had a weekend to respond to the brief and it's amazing what they came up with in such a short space of time.

Were we routinely to entertain questions not presented in the petition for certiorari, much of this efficiency would vanish, as parties who feared an inability to prevail on the question presented would be encouraged to fill their limited briefing space and argument time with discussion of issues other than the one on which certiorari was granted.

But they could not duplicate the microgravity environment of space, aside from brief bits of time spent in steep descent in specially equipped airplanes.

What distinguishes "Our Town" is Thornton Wilder's ability to find eternal truth in a brief moment of time and space -- the Alpha and Omega of human existence in Grover's Corners.

You can "read" Freakonomics, Outliers and A Brief History of Time in the space of a 45-minute commute -- imagine what you could do on the commute home.

When the CFP begins, the AP waits a brief duration of time known as a short interframe space (SIFS) which serves as a delay between beacon, data, acknowledgement, and end frames that are transmitted during the CFP.

Before Hawking, the great popularizer of space was Carl Sagan, who wrote the introduction to "A Brief History of Time".