Example sentences of "only for a brief [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is good that we can walk into that world again , even if only for a brief interlude . |
| 2 | Pausing only for a brief tongue-twister — she did that very well , Karen , where your tongues circle each other tantalizingly , barely touching — we gave chase along the footpath which runs through the meadows bordering the river . |
| 3 | In the event , two professors — Moorcroft and Coleman — were appointed , but only for a brief period . |
| 4 | Fifty years later they captured Delphi , if only for a brief period . |
| 5 | Only for a brief moment while Merrill was changing her shoes did she know a fleeting reservation . |
| 6 | All about Keswick he had noticed gangs of men building the giant reaches of drystone walls enclosing even the highest fell-land , the better to take advantage of grain prices in the war ; gangs of men working the woods , as charcoal-burners , swill-makers , coppice-workers , plain woodmen ; and , as here , men in the high mines — men spread all over the landscape , bondmen of industry , all living out near their workplace , turf huts and teepees scattered abroad , excluded from society throughout the week of their work and let into its comforts and pleasure only for a brief Saturday night escape . |