By this time Barbara had experienced several more brief blackouts.

But local officials said there was precious little their governments could do beyond that during the predictably unpredictable but brief blackouts, usually an hour long.

A lightning strike to a power station near Tallahassee caused a brief city-wide blackout.

But you have replaced the statue during the brief blackout.

The half-silvered fixed pellicle mirror, without even the brief blackout of the instant-return mirror, was innovative but did not become standard.

Every so often he has a brief blackout.

All subsequent Gemini flights would have the same brief blackout.

Well, there was a brief blackout on the street.

At times, Mr. Benning peppers these scenes with brief blackouts, as if attempting to wake up his audience.

The brief blackout was enough to cripple the system's computers.