brief break

collocation in English

meaningsofbriefandbreak

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brief
adjective
uk
/briːf/us
/briːf/
lasting only a short time or containing ...
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break
noun
uk
/breɪk/us
/breɪk/
an ...
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(Definition ofbriefandbreakfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Participants were allowed abriefbreakand were provided with water to drink between blocks.
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The task consisted of 40 experimental trials with abriefbreakafter 20 trials.
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The older children were tested in a single session with abriefbreakbetween blocks.
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The event is an opportunity for students to take abriefbreakfrom schoolwork.
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He took abriefbreakfrom hockey during the 2011-12 season.
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Extra-time sessions were 15 minutes long before abriefbreakand change of ends.
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Due to the double elimination rules, he was allowed to continue after abriefbreak.
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After abriefbreak, the band returned to the stage.
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After abriefbreak, the band returned to the studio in 1992 to record their next album.
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Both sides took abriefbreakfor regrouping.
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The wrestlers are carefully separated, have abriefbreakand then return to the exact position they left off in.
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She divorces him soon after and takes a verybriefbreakfrom the team.
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Brooks took abriefbreakfrom retirement early in 2005 to perform for several charity causes.
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This was followed by abriefbreak.
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After abriefbreakin 195657, he resumed the controls of the club for a final decade from 1958 to 1967, winning his last championship in 1963.
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Apart from brief breaks between tasks, a break of five minutes was held halfway through the session.
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After abriefbreak, the community joins together again for a church service that follows a typical evangelical format, with a sermon as a central feature.
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The band was meant as a joke, and was supposed to only record one demo and do one show; however, they were active up to 2011, despite severalbriefbreak-ups.
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Especially when newly forming, tornadoes may sometimes exhibit brief breaks in the damage path even as the parent circulation is continuous.
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