brief moment

collocation in English

meaningsofbriefandmoment

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brief
adjective
uk
/briːf/us
/briːf/
lasting only a short time or containing ...
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moment
noun
uk
/ˈməʊ.mənt/us
/ˈmoʊ.mənt/
a very short period ...
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(Definition ofbriefandmomentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Nor is it defined by its ability to present visual stimuli for abriefmomentor to facilitate reaction time measurement.
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He stops for abriefmomentand listens to them praising his father, the former ruler.
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This may have been the case for abriefmomentat the end of the 1920s, but the story became much more complex in the postwar decades.
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The '4:48' of the title is referred to four times in the text as a moment at which the speaker finds clarity for abriefmomentbefore dawn.
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This, for abriefmoment, seems a suitable oportunity to do it.
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For abriefmoment, they made the economy swing.
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I should like to intervene for a verybriefmoment.
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I want to deal with that point for onebriefmomentbefore passing on to the question of food production here.
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It is nice to see his party entering this century for abriefmoment.
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Nor did we then imagine for onebriefmomentthat a domestic matter such as tobacco advertising would be other than under our control.
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Having said that, thebriefmomentof consensus comes to an end.
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I now turn for abriefmomentto gas.
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Let us examine for onebriefmomenthow far the argument can be placed upon the kind of morality which objects to gambling.
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It is worth spending abriefmomenton the court's judgment.
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I regret that for abriefmomenthe was betrayed into an unnecessarily vigorous expletive.
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This is not the result of abriefmomentof discontent.
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I am glad to have abriefmomentto express some of the feelings of my constituents about the problem of rising prices.
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