brief time
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbriefandtime
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brief
adjective
uk/briːf/us/briːf/
lasting only a short time or containing ...
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time
noun
uk/taɪm/us/taɪm/
the part of existence that is measured in minutes, days, years, etc., or this process considered as ...
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(Definition ofbriefandtimefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In this example, abrieftimeinterval is sufficient to build the complete graph without approximation.
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A pulse waveform has significant amplitude only during relativelybrieftimeintervals, called the pulse width.
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For abrieftime, illusion was the locus of ritual.
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After abrieftime, the patient perked up and did very well.
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While the form and appearance of democracy may appear at the centre for abrieftime, it will not last if limited to reform of central institutions.
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This strategy was not available to us because cobalt inactivations last at most 90 s (see below), but multiple-unit clusters produced stable responses in thebrieftimeavailable.
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However, these analyses were limited by the number of strains sampled and thebrieftimeperiods studied.
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In local accounts, popular protests therefore appear mostly as sporadic eruptions that shake the social order for abrieftimebefore sinking again into the anonymous bustle of urban life.
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The genotypes at these loci then spread through the population and multiple fixations can occur in abrieftimeperiod.
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But, in thebrieftimeavailable in interviews, this separation from ethics issues could not be complete in all cases.
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Unfortunately, liver transplantation is limited by the severe shortage of cadaveric organ donors and thebrieftimeavailable in which to obtain a suitable liver.
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We take these results to suggest that patients with schizophrenia are less accurate at estimatingbrieftimeperiods.
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Although lexical priming and sentential priming each occur very quickly in time, there should be abrieftimewindow in which the former is present but the latter is absent.
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The relatively stability of child adjustment and parent responses over thisbrieftimeperiod may erode either in the face of profound new stressors or over longer time intervals.
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For abrieftimethe political, economic and cultural aspects clearly existed in harmony, but thereafter they got out of phase as sociocultural relationships developed a dynamic of their own.
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They could be expected to arrive at the lungs virtually simultaneously and similarly to migrate out over abrieftimeperiod.
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Out of 153 people, we managed to find and interview 87 (57 %) within thebrieftimeallotted for the study by the camp authorities.
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Suppose that an organism produces a series of offspring, each one persisting for abrieftimeand then dying before the next is born.
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I conclude my comments in view of thebrieftimeavailable.
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