Sentence examples for that brief span from inspiring English sources

In that brief span, the world population of billionaires nearly doubled to more than 1,800.

In that brief span, the novel's nameless protagonist, a retired advertising man, undergoes a series of increasingly drastic surgical procedures.

Yet within that brief span, fundamental principles of democracy and press freedom have twice been tested in Kenya.

But Treadwell packs into that brief span an unforgettable portrait of a particular woman and of America itself as a hellishly dehumanised assembly line.

The report was on the site for less than 24 hours, but during that brief span it was picked up and circulated by readers and news media all over the world.

Altogether, the unit has seen 39 soldiers die in five months, more in that brief span than the number killed in any brigade that preceded it in yearlong deployments here.

The only recordings that we have of Charlie Christian, which have influenced each successive generation of guitarists and contributed so much to the distinctive sound of rock 'n' roll, were produced in the brief span that he played with Goodman.

4. Lohr, 1974b, 228 writes concerning the years from 1500 to 1650: "It is an astonishing fact that the number of Latin Aristotle commentaries composed in this brief span exceeds that of the entire millennium from Boethius to Pomponazzi".; the same sentence is found in Lohr, 1988, XIII. 5. Lohr, 1974b through Lohr, 1982.

It's simply that any brief span of time, probed in sufficient detail, will be found to contain plenty of them: the changing witness reports and reports about the weapons involved; the quote in the newspaper, purportedly from the school principal who had, in fact, been killed; the seemingly strange lack of records concerning the recent life of Adam Lanza.

Whatever happened over the brief span of this moment, I knew it would be cancelled out by the fact that they thought I was a prick.

Whatever happened over the brief span of this moment, I knew it would be canceled out by the fact that they thought I was a prick.