brief periods

Now, we're accustomed to thinking about emotions in this way, in simple, sort of, brief periods of time.

Keep diapered children in the water for only brief periods and keep sick people out of the water altogether.

It wants to be relaxed for distance, with the ciliary muscle contracting only for brief periods of close focusing.

Your boyfriend and his schlong, in other words, would assume for brief periods the characteristics of tachyons.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

To minimize the overhead incurred, limit use of this event class to traces that monitor specific problems for brief periods of time.

Unlike China, Europe was united only for brief periods, and the fragmentation helped to roil the status quo and drive political change.

If refrigeration were omitted, even for brief periods, irreversible changes occurred in the red cells.

It loops until shut down, periodically showing and hiding itself for brief periods.

But improved efficiency isn't the only effect the hybrid system has - it can also boost performance for brief periods.

Breathing becomes shallow, or may even stop for brief periods.

He scans the market for brief periods of inefficiency.

Limit data collections to brief periods.

The observation that is useful in this instance is; locks are normally held for very brief periods of time.