"We tell people to pat their skin with a damp washcloth and put on a heavy moisturizer, but that only lasts a short time," Dr. Gilchrest said.
At this point you might say "Ah, but these are excitatory synapses, and each one produces only a relatively small perturbation of membrane conductance that lasts a short time (a brief conductance increase will have a localized effect because only the charge in the near vicinity of the conductance increase will have time to leak through it).
Perhaps I should explain at this point that a craze or a fad is a sudden and widespread enthusiasm for something, which only lasts a short time.
Many of them report an urge to kill themselves that sometimes lasts a short time.
And even if what I am experiencing only lasts a short time (or the rest of my life), I feel that I'm lucky because now I know I have experienced one of the main reasons that life even exists.
If the steam treatment is mild in temperature or lasts a short time, the total decrease in the number of acid sites is relatively low in comparison with non-phosphated samples.
On the other hand, the increased production of ROS observed in normal chondrocytes, although lasting a shorter time than in OA cells, may not be devoid of deleterious effects, especially if prolonged exposure to high glucose occurs, as may be the case in poorly controlled diabetic patients.
The rightwing government lasted a short time, but did what many see as irreversible harm.
That is more serious than a boycott, which would last a short time".
The orchids lasted a short time, but have had no new blooms since.
The contested election in Gambia started with an internet blackout that lasted a short time.
