When it was over, most agreed that the ballot controversy was a fleeting affair, especially when compared with things above.
For the 4.8 million people who lined England's streets for the first three stages of the Tour de France this summer, the race itself was a fleeting affair.
He loved me and the boys, he loved our lifestyle and his good name was very important to him – no way he'd give all that up for a fleeting affair.
Having become a father last September – following a "fleeting affair" with Tinglan Hong, a Chinese 32-year-old – he is now cast as a cad who couldn't even be bothered to turn up to his own daughter's birth.
For a man who used the words "uncertain" and "uncertainty" four times in his opening remarks earlier today, Mervyn King appears very confident about one thing: inflation's rise above 3%, which probably happened in January as VAT went up, will be a fleeting affair.
A fleeting affair between two of China's biggest tech successes has ended acrimoniously after e-commerce giant Alibaba banned sellers from using Tencent's popular messaging app, WeChat.
Grant and Hong had had a "fleeting affair", according to his publicist, and they reportedly briefly reunited in 2012.
He and the mother had a fleeting affair and while this was not planned, Hugh could not be happier or more supportive.
Not only was Grant arrested in 1995 for picking up a prostitute while dating Liz Hurley, but he became a father in 2011 as the result of a "fleeting affair" with Chinese actress Tinglan Hong.
