It affords a brief opportunity to check out other people, up close and stationary, whom they will never see again in their life.

"We had a brief opportunity to significantly impact their potential to produce opium," one senior American official involved in the effort said.

There was, last June, a brief opportunity to marry those two competing objectives.

She had only brief opportunities with the bat in the closing stages of the innings.

Unfortunately, Fiben was thrown off balance and could not follow up his brief opportunity.

I never knew anyone who could make a better use of the briefest opportunity.

But now, after giving Blowers only a brief opportunity, he apparently has changed his mind.

You may be allowed to attend these meetings and usually have a brief opportunity to make your views known.

He had opportunities, brief but timely, to enter the picture and leave it, taking the gems with him.

The virus often does not become established for a few days, offering a brief opportunity to defeat it.