brief mention
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbriefandmention
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brief
adjective
uk/briːf/us/briːf/
lasting only a short time or containing ...
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mention
noun
uk/ˈmen.ʃən/us/ˈmen.ʃən/
a short remark or ...
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(Definition ofbriefandmentionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There is also abriefmentionof using a language model for treating speech containing code-switching (utterances containing a mixture of languages).
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Still, we cannot avoid abriefmentionof some philosophical issues.
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We finish this section with abriefmentionof some other relevant literature.
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There are certainly omissions and some important topics and results receive only abriefmention.
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An additional issue related to inadequate information and perceptual learning deservesbriefmention.
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We conclude with abriefmentionof three possible planetary explosion mechanisms.
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There isbriefmentionof inward jetting to form a plasma precursor (p. 183), but this is not found in the quoted simulations (p. 15).
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Briefmentionshould be made of the differences between the two student organisations in promoting the student frame.
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The chapters that cover social issues and epidemiology are short, and cross-cultural studies are given onlybriefmention.
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Thus, somebriefmentionof this f undamental aspect of daily life is very much missed here.
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There is very little on transnational corporations in the development process, apart from a verybriefmentionof export-processing zones and employment conditions in them.
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Some of the more widely publicised confrontations warrantbriefmention.
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The emphasis of the book is on satellite remote sensing, with onlybriefmentionof airborne techniques.
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Indeed, such systems provide some of the most compelling examples of adaptation, co-evolution and diversification, but only find a singlebriefmentionin this book.
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To provide some context for the maps that started to appear in the fifteenth century,briefmentionmust be made of their antecedents.
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My impression is that virtually every interesting issue about case that has arisen in the linguistic literature probably receives at least abriefmentionsomewhere in this book.
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In this paper there has been onlybriefmentionof those aspects of community nursing practice that exemplify the 'hands-on' activity such as compression bandaging or care of pressure areas.
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Chapter 5 concerns trace fossils and mainly concerns invertebrate animal traces although there isbriefmentionof vertebrate tracks and an even shorter mention of animal-plant interactions.
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I must make abriefmentionof industrial relations.
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There is just abriefmentionof it in the introduction.
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