Sentence examples for for very brief from inspiring English sources

Only for very brief periods.

The latter procedure was feasible only for very brief periods (less than five minutes).

After crossing the border, he attended a camp for very brief training, "they just teach you the very minimum to get by", and three weeks later was on the frontline.

Mr. Liu's wife, Liu Xia, the older sister of Liu Hui, has been kept under house arrest since the announcement of the prize in October 2010 and has had no contact with the outside world, except for very brief meetings with liberal Chinese friends and once with reporters of The Associated Press who managed to sneak past guards last December to visit her.

But as Wren-Lewis also notes, before you say "I don't believe in sticky prices, or at least not except for very brief periods, and therefore I believe that the economy is almost always close to full employment", you should think though the mechanism by which flexible prices supposedly restore full employment.

"Some metal debris creates electrical shortages for very brief periods," says Johnson. "We are looking for ways to have the spacecraft automatically recover from safing," including writing new software, he says.

As they retreated to the wings for a very brief break before arriving back for an encore, Young said "thanks again for this, this is a song from The Standells but we really love the Minor Threat version, so here is our take!," then kicking into "Good Guys Don't Wear White," with fans of Minor Threat smiling from ear to ear.

The need for a very brief, patient-reported sleep measure designed for population-based studies or clinical trials in which sleep is one of several dimensions to be assessed is clear.

One angles by for a very brief moment.

No quarrels are attributed to him, except for a very brief one with Jacob Tonson, a publisher.

For a very brief period, democratically minded Russians did turn against the security services.