Sentence examples for briefer duration from inspiring English sources

His explosive "hat" ("I never go in a hat, even in winter") differed from the common American pronunciation of the adjective "hot" (typical of Waindell townspeople, for example) only by its briefer duration, and thus sounded very much like the German verb "hat" (has).

Also in the "Context" condition there was a longer duration of the Microstate 4 (the first state showing difference in activation between different classes of stimuli; p = 0.01; see Figure 3A C) and a briefer duration of the Microstate 5 for grasping motor acts relative to simple contact actions (p = 0.03; see Figure 3C).

A given interval always can be subdivided into a sequential chain delimiting briefer durations, as with the regular units that provide empirical measures of time: the second, the day, the year.

The ascendancy of the Talaings was of brief duration.

The plaintiffs' case was troubled throughout the trial's brief duration.

Cloudburst, a sudden, very heavy rainfall, usually local in nature and of brief duration.

Generally produced by cloudbursts, sheetfloods are of brief duration, and they commonly move only short distances.

Sharp pain of brief duration that occurred in occasional subjects was regarded as inadvertent noxious stimulation.

are of brief duration or episodic and are guided largely by impulse.

He added that the policy "was in place only for the brief duration the threat existed".

Our initial method of tackling the problem was to disable external interrupts for a brief duration while emitting the pulse.