Example sentences of "apart [prep] a brief [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from a brief pilot study in Edinburgh it was not undertaken . |
| 2 | And , apart from a brief marriage much earlier , Sammy Davis Jnr remained single until his marriage in 1960 to Swedish actress May Britt . |
| 3 | Apart from a brief spurt of publicity , the futile exercise did neither The Wedding Present , nor the two bands involved , a great deal of good . |
| 4 | Even so , there has already been one triumph : inflation fell to 6% in the year to the third quarter , the lowest rate for 18 years apart from a brief spell in 1984–85 . |
| 5 | The following year he registered for study in philosophy and theology at the University of Leyden and , apart from a brief return to Rostock , remained in The Netherlands until he took up a post at the University of Copenhagen in June 1648 . |
| 6 | Senna led from the start and , apart from a brief skirmish in the opening laps , never came under serious pressure . |
| 7 | A period of teacher training followed , after which Blamey returned to teach at the Regent Street Polytechnic where he remained , apart from a brief period during the war , until it combined with the Chelsea Polytechnic . |
| 8 | Apart from a brief period during the First World War , when the Royal Flying Corps had use of the area inside the circuit , Brooklands was used continuously from 1907 to the outbreak of the Second World War . |
| 9 | Apart from a brief period after 1964 when prescription charges were removed , these charges have remained ever since and been increased regularly . |
| 10 | There are unlikely to be any Scottish Conservative Back Benchers either , not only because there are so few of them but because none of them has participated in this debate , apart from a brief intervention by the hon. and learned member for Perth and Kinross ( Sir N. Fairbairn ) that could hardly have been described as serious participation . |
| 11 | It had not been sighted for nearly a month apart from a brief report by a shepherd in Northumberland which sounded like a possibility but was vague — and the Zoo conceded that if he was still alive he could certainly survive like any other golden eagle in the wild . |
| 12 | The steel control remained in force ( apart from a brief interval from June 1950 to February 1951 when shortages none the less remained ) until May 1953 ; building controls lasted into 1954 . |
| 13 | Furse had no personal experience of imperial administration , and until he began the series of journeys associated with his work of recruitment , had seen nothing of the empire apart from a brief visit to Ceylon . |