Example sentences of "very briefly " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very briefly , it has to be said : next time clip both abseil ropes , George … |
| 2 | We will return to this later , but at this point the course of the Famine needs to be related very briefly . |
| 3 | ‘ I even found myself very briefly attached to the US 8th Army Air Force ! |
| 4 | He inadvisedly tried to launch himself very briefly in Hollywood . |
| 5 | Let me mention three things very briefly this morning . |
| 6 | On one occasion I remember that she promoted me very briefly for the space of an entire morning . |
| 7 | Next came a stomach-churning visit to the Snake Temple , where I actually held a snake very briefly , but drew the line at having it photographed around my neck ! |
| 8 | I outline this theory very briefly here . |
| 9 | This , very briefly , gives the background to the proposed recommendation and the reasons for it . |
| 10 | Very briefly , the basic Marxist argument is that the selective enforcement of the law , by largely ignoring white-collar/business crime , gives the impression that criminals are mainly from the working classes , which serves to direct attention away from ‘ ruling-class crime ’ . |
| 11 | Let us very briefly examine these four roles . |
| 12 | The idea is to note the activity ( which is planned by the classteacher alongside other teachers ) very briefly , to describe whether it was for a whole class , a group , or perhaps an individual . |
| 13 | She only saw Pamela and her parents together very briefly at this stage . |
| 14 | But in returning to the question of research projects in academic libraries , it is useful to consider generally and very briefly the nature of the various projects . |
| 15 | A hare feeds only very briefly on any given crop — it will visit winter wheat , for instance , only in late February or early March , when the corn is still short and growing rapidly . |
| 16 | I had been his guest in the air very briefly before when I was taken up to see Low Birk Hatt as a bird would see it , and I found it a thrilling experience , quite the best way to travel . |
| 17 | Let me summarise very briefly the outline of the argument so far . |
| 18 | This discussion will be spread over two chapters and it should be noted here that , for clarity of presentation , it will sometimes be necessary to introduce very briefly in this chapter certain ideas which will then be discussed more fully in the next . |
| 19 | The clear facts are that Gunhilda left the monastery with Count Alan Rufus , and lived with him very briefly as wife or mistress until his death , which followed almost immediately , probably on 4 August 1093 . |
| 20 | These may very briefly be described as the exclusion of lay influence from the Church at all levels from papal elections down to the investiture of bishops and the ownership of churches , and the centralization of government by frequent papal councils and synods , and by the appointment of papal legates with superior jurisdiction over wide areas . |
| 21 | What it says , very briefly , is that it is always a break in the order which attracts our attention . |
| 22 | Thereafter we shall very briefly outline some of the main trends in theology beyond Germany in the same period . |
| 23 | I shall very briefly consider each set of explanations in terms of ‘ race ’ and gender . |
| 24 | That very same spirit of ‘ social responsibility ’ was to flicker , albeit very briefly , even in the Daily Mail . |
| 25 | Very briefly , Althusser first of all argues that this theory is built upon new concepts ( such as the forces and relations of production ) which have no counterpart in the classical theory of political economy . |
| 26 | We had argued , to put it very briefly , that since one of the law 's concerns was the preservation of public order and decency , steps ought to be taken to remove the affront to public order and decency which was presented by the obtrusive presence of large numbers of prostitutes openly soliciting on the streets . |
| 27 | Rowe and Lambert concluded that residential care was of value for some children , but not usually for young children except very briefly . |
| 28 | All neo-Marxist word-processors have been programmed with the phrase ‘ the relative autonomy of the capitalist state ’ , so it may be useful in rounding off this section to recap very briefly on how the three approaches actually use this concept . |
| 29 | In this opening chapter , we describe very briefly how local politicians and statutory and voluntary services first responded to the emerging heroin outbreaks in the 1982–5 period . |
| 30 | Very briefly , they discovered that public sector boards were smaller on average , had more part-time members , had a broader membership background ; members had a shorter length of service , held fewer outside appointments and were paid less than private sector boards . |