Brief in sentence

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So we built a device, which we call a puff-o-mat, in which we could deliver little brief air puffs to fruit flies in these plastic tubes in our laboratory bench and blow them away.

This is a brief look at that.

This is the simple design brief.

The fellow survivors, the fellow voice-hearers, the comrades and collaborators; the mother who never gave up on me, who knew that one day I would come back to her and was willing to wait for me for as long as it took; the doctor who only worked with me for a brief time but who reinforced his belief that recovery was not only possible but inevitable, and during a devastating period of relapse told my terrified family, "Don't give up hope.

Now, what this, even this brief debate, brings out is something that many economists overlook.

There's problem after problem, and I think what really separates this time from any time I can remember in my brief time on Earth is the awareness of these problems.

In one study, we had people watch a brief video, just 46 seconds long, about childhood poverty that served as a reminder of the needs of others in the world around them.

So here's just a brief snippet of his four-hour interrogation.

But even with all this marketing, the life of the billy possum turned out to be just pathetically brief.

So a brief history of technology in the NFL.

You wrap the pages around your head and are in that piazza for that brief period of time.

They asked me to come up with a very brief wish for humanity, no more than 50 words.

Before I introduce the person responsible for the WorldWide Telescope, I just want to leave you with this brief thought: when I ask people, "How does the night sky make you feel?" they often say, "Oh, tiny.

Let me just go down a very few abuses of women that concern me most, and I'll be fairly brief, because I have a limited amount of time, as you know.

But I didn't realize that that simple experience, though brief, was a privileged one in our community.

Rare is an exchange: a smile of brief, wry recognition.

The inflationary model describes a brief era of incredibly rapid expansion that relates quantum fluctuations in the energy of the early universe, to the formation of clumps of gas that eventually led to galaxies.

Or will we destroy our world and its inhabitants after only a brief appearance on the cosmic stage?

The experience is brief and occurs without notice, making it nearly impossible for scientists to record and study it.

More than a century ago, he was looking back on his life, and he wrote this: "There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account.

We call this early period inflation, where, shortly after the Big Bang, the universe expanded extremely fast for a brief period.

So in the district court the government submitted a brief on Myriad's side.

But now in direct opposition to its own patent office, the US government files a brief that states that is has reconsidered this issue in light of the district court's opinion, and has concluded that isolated DNA is not patent eligible.

Also in the room were three leaders of the Human Genome Project, including the co-discoverer of DNA himself, James Watson, who had submitted a brief to the court, where he referred to gene patenting as "lunacy."

Sure, sitting for brief periods can help us recover from stress or recuperate from exercise.

One more rule, number 10, and it's this one: Be brief.

For that brief moment in time, the glow was brighter than all the stars in all the galaxies in all of the known Universe.

So here are brief rundowns of a few of his best and worst ideas.

Now, after this particular Dreadnoughtus carcass was buried and de-fleshed by a multitude of bacteria, worms and insects, its bones underwent a brief metamorphosis, exchanging molecules with the groundwater and becoming more and more like the entombing rock.

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