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briefly English
Meaning briefly meaning
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Simple sentences
To put it briefly, I do not agree.
State your case briefly.
Let us briefly recall an important result from group theory.
They spoke briefly.
We spoke briefly.
During the Renaissance, the seat of the Papacy moved briefly to Avignon before moving back to Rome.
Many issues were raised during the meeting. I'll mention, briefly, the most important of them.
To put it briefly, he lacks musical ability.
Tell me, briefly, what happened.
He paused briefly to savour the moment.
We chatted briefly.
Tom talked to Mary briefly.
Can you explain it briefly?
Movie subtitles
And the others, well, they'd only met her briefly and she was wearing a scarlet dress.
Returned home briefly before making a stop at the Radford Bank in Adams Morgan.
I shall briefly recount the history of this case.
But very briefly.
Briefly speaking, an order introducing compulsory isolation of all lepers will be issued presently.
We met on the train, rather briefly.
Too briefly.
As your uncle may have heard, milady. during the Crusade I was imprisoned briefly in several Saracen jails. but only briefly.
Yes, briefly.
To put it briefly, he's real dead.
She likes to think of herself as being wildly countercultural. I think she's actually just jealous of the fact that Bern and I really were hippies, briefly.
I was engaged, briefly.
I will briefly summarize these facts.
I met him only briefly. He's friends with my uncle.
Very briefly this?
Please answer my questions as briefly as possible.
Have a look around the grounds briefly will ya?
Briefly, we wish to engage your services to take someone from England and deliver him to a place we shall designate.
Right at the beginning of the act, very briefly.
So, to put it briefly, the court-martial will not take place.
I wanted to speak to you briefly yesterday evening but no opportunity presented itself.
Just very briefly.
They whispered briefly in Russian. and then left.
We talked as we walked, but very briefly.
Pardon me, Howard, I will be back very briefly.
And that he should state his business briefly and in a businesslike manner.
I hardly have the time now to explain it, but maybe I can briefly clarify it.
Let's talk briefly about the financial problem.
Briefly.
Right, let's sum up, briefly.
Tell me briefly what it's about.
Briefly, he seemed terrifying.
Only briefly.
News and current affairs
Briefly stress consists of a pattern of built-in processes preparing the human organism for physical activity in response to demands and influences that tax its capacity to adapt.
So the window of opportunity to talk and compromise may be open only briefly, and, unfortunately, we have probably not seen the end of nuclear brinkmanship.
Even China briefly allowed its currency to weaken against the dollar last year, and slowing output growth may tempt the government to let the renminbi weaken even more.
Big bailouts allowed countries to briefly maintain over-valued exchange rates, which in turn allowed the rich in these countries to get their money out at more favorable terms than they might have done otherwise.
On the right is Nicolas Sarkozy, the interior minister (and briefly the economy minister), whose political rise took place within the grab-bag framework of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).
Horowitz asked owners to forbid their dogs to take a biscuit and then briefly leave the room.
Sometimes her expression is briefly clouded by a streak of stifled pain, obstinate and not wholly contained.
The image of a bank run, of long lines of angry people lining up outside a failed bank, was briefly on our minds after the Northern Rock failure in Britain.
While India's government had briefly hoped that the proof might enable Pakistan's weak civilian government to rein in the malign elements in its society, the Pakistani authorities' reaction has been one of denial.
Turkey's ancient antagonism toward Russia briefly revived when the Soviet Union imploded.
Noise about these risks has occasionally (but only briefly) shaken investors' confidence, and modest market corrections have tended to reverse themselves.
The terrorists themselves cast their actions in political terms, even though we rarely listen; indeed, the terrorists' words are typically reported only briefly, if at all.
Argentina was briefly Wall Street's darling.
Mahathir appears to have been spurred on by the successes of the neighboring island-state of Singapore, briefly a part of Malaysia, on its swift march to First World status.
What Bastille Day revealed, even briefly and superficially, is that the potential to unite France exists.
As we saw briefly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the drug trade from Afghanistan could be sharply curtailed.
Furthermore, the manual mentions risk communication only briefly, in the context of medical testimony.
While scores have lost their positions and others have been imprisoned, most are briefly detained and then allowed to find other jobs in China's burgeoning civil society.
Nor does it work according to the Pax Americana that dominated in the decade after the Soviet Union's collapse, when the US briefly emerged as the sole superpower.
Two years ago, the silence was broken briefly by Ken Attafuah, who directs Ghana's truth and reconciliation commission, charged with investigating rights violations during two decades of dictatorships.
Of the largest borrowers, only Brazil, in 1987, formally defaulted - and only briefly.
Mao's hundred flowers may have bloomed only briefly, but today's myriad species of Weltpolitik are certain to bloom perennially.
Rising food prices - possibly related to climate change - have reversed past progress and last year briefly pushed the number suffering from hunger above the one-billion mark.
The governments thought briefly about that prospect and then, without exception, blinked.
America was briefly tempted into real imperialism when it emerged as a world power a century ago, but the interlude of formal empire did not last long.
His wife is killed, and he stands accused of murdering her for an affair she briefly had with his friend.
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