Example sentences of "[adv] brief period " in BNC.
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| 1 | TNC was given an astonishingly brief period of consultation while teachers were on their summer holidays in 1987 ; ISS was the subject of a year 's consultation in 1984–85 — perhaps too long . |
| 2 | The style of the élite was westernized , secularized , ‘ civilized ’ in an astonishingly brief period . |
| 3 | This all-too brief period was over , and now on the fifth day after his return , the only partly healed Angel One was standing in the death arena , sword in hand , preparing to fight for his life . |
| 4 | Now normal pre-linguistic human infants , for a relatively brief period of their development , share none of the conscious hopes , plans , and desires for a continuing life , of the mongoloid child . |
| 5 | Only when this phase has been completed , and perhaps only for a relatively brief period at the height of a crisis , can a second phase of overt conflict between proletarians and capitalists become manifest ( Przeworski , 1977 ) . |
| 6 | At Westminster , the government annually presents a package of spending and revenue-raising measures which parliament , after a relatively brief period of ritual debate , duly ratifies . |
| 7 | Only during a relatively brief period in the 1950s and 1960s did another form — the high-rise block of flats — become almost as dominant in new local authority construction as the house with the garden , and then generally in the more densely populated urban areas ( Dunleavy , 1981 ) . |
| 8 | It was tolerated well enough to become a useful drug , but it had a very brief period of action ; 6-MP is attacked by the enzyme xanthine oxidase , a normal constituent of the human body ( and of widespread occurrence elsewhere ) and is converted to a substance , thio-uric acid , which is not active against tumours . |
| 9 | And finally we went to see Karl Dönitz , the admiral who throughout the war had epitomized the U-boat service and been its inspired leader , who in 1943 had relieved Admiral Raeder as Germany 's naval commander-in-chief , and finally for a very brief period before arrest and ten years ' imprisonment in Spandau had succeeded Hitler as Chancellor . |
| 10 | Those who did object found various means of evasion , and in any case , within a very brief period , the initially reluctant provincial nobility became acclimatized . |
| 11 | He will recall that inflation never fell below 7.4 per cent. , and that for only a very brief period , while the Labour party was in Government . |
| 12 | Hence , for example , children wet the bed — usually for a very brief period — for a variety of understandable reasons : emotional upset over the strange and terrifying journey , homesickness , fear of their new foster parents — sometimes because a toilet was inaccessible . |
| 13 | The difference , however , is that stags are vastly more successful during their usually very brief period when they 're controlling a harem of hinds . |
| 14 | In we were fortunate in that the time of the introduction of L M S coincided with the all too brief period when this group was in control of the Council and as the window of opportunity opened to get off to a flying start |