Example sentences of "for a brief time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a brief time the descendants of those Highlanders who had been forced down into the valley to find work a century before had returned to the land of their fathers . |
| 2 | Can you tell me why , on returning to normal drive after 4WD , I experience severe jumping in the steering action for a brief time before everything returns to normal . |
| 3 | For a brief time in the sixteenth century , mercury was supplanted by an extract of the bark of a West Indian tree , Guaiacum . |
| 4 | The bond which had drawn them so close before Angel 's birth was strong and sometimes Sarah longed to be back for a brief time in that dilapidated house in Stone Alley , free of the sanctimonious atmosphere of the rectory , until she remembered Maggie was n't there any more either . |
| 5 | For a brief time there was a respite from conflict . |
| 6 | Little is known of their courtship but it is said that , for a brief time , they were happy . |
| 7 | Accumulated errors were to be erased from the holy books , services were to be conducted in a more intelligible manner , sermons were to be encouraged , and scholarship was to be actively fostered in a number of monasteries ; at the same time , new saints were canonized , clergy and laity alike urged to observe the prescribed fasts , and for a brief time the government even went to the lengths of closing the taverns . |
| 8 | She hovered for a brief time over the trunk of the tree , tears streaming from her eyes , shuddering as the axes continued to cut into the wood , shaking her head from side to side . |
| 9 | Then they would have entered the conical shadow cast by the moon , and the stars would have become visible again for a brief time before the Lift sank beneath the surface itself and came to a standstill , its massive kinetic energy somehow conducted away from the lower terminus and stored in a way that Alex Bannen would have killed to learn . |
| 10 | Boswell felt depressed for a brief time , and homesick : no letters had arrived for him , the cause of a little worry . |
| 11 | If diffugere signals that winter 's troops are on the run — the snows have skeddadled — then the Grace may dare , at least for a brief time of truce , to resume her peaceful pastimes . |
| 12 | It was warm and sunny , and for a brief time , as she cycled along to the nearest shops , she almost forgot what was to come that day . |
| 13 | For a brief time , this nook of County Durham was quite a fashionable holiday resort among the health-conscious . |
| 14 | I think it worth pointing out that of course erm when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister for a brief time I think Lady Young was Leader of the House of Lords in her cabinet , but apart from that there was never another women cabinet minister during her time as leader , so |