brief visit

collocation in English

meaningsofbriefandvisit

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brief
adjective
uk
/briːf/us
/briːf/
lasting only a short time or containing ...
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visit
noun[C]
uk
/ˈvɪz.ɪt/us
/ˈvɪz.ɪt/
an occasion when you visit a place ...
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(Definition ofbriefandvisitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbrief visit

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What is the justification for building accommodation for a verybriefvisit?
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He made a brief intervention and abriefvisitto our proceedings.
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I saw very few of them during mybriefvisit.
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That is true, yet we are talking not about a full-blown inspection but about an extremelybriefvisit.
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Those working people find, amongst other pleasures at those places, that abriefvisitto a cheap-jack auction gives a little diversion.
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I was greatly pleased to discover on mybriefvisitthere last week that it is earning lots of money.
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I had the opportunity to make abriefvisitto the island which enabled me to judge the state of morale and the problems faced by our troops there.
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By going into various places in the city it could have learned far more than it did from itsbriefvisitthere.
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I was struck during mybriefvisitby the fact that the subject of health care is now remarkably similar in many countries.
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I shall refer to various matters arising from ourbriefvisitand draw attention to wider political, economic and military issues affecting the region.
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Consequently, from 1961 to 1966 he made only onebriefvisithome.
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Brewster finds himself drawn to the place during hisbriefvisit.
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Avner makes abriefvisitto his wife, who has given birth to their first baby.
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Momentarily, a magpie comes to the house for abriefvisit.
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Louden played the role from 1988 to 1990 and for abriefvisitin 1993.
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No one in abriefvisitcan hope to absorb and comprehend all that is strange to him.
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Less than 3% of the seafloor has been explored, and none of the deepest points of the planet's oceans have ever been explored beyond abriefvisitto one.
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His stay in the city lasted only about eight months, with anotherbriefvisitin 1609/1610, yet his impact on artistic life there was profound.
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Trisha also; she was born here but went overseas to study at the age of eighteen and has never returned except for brief visits.
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British diplomatic posts brief visiting missions on the general political and economic situations in the country concerned including, where relevant or specifically requested, its human rights record.
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