briefness

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The briefness of the January burn was attributed to the hydraulic system associated with one of the engines; that system apparently exceeded conservatively preset limits in one parameter, triggering a shutdown, investigators determined.

From Scientific American • Mar. 19, 2021

The briefness of female fertility is, she chips in sympathetically, “a bummer. It’s just a real, real pickle.”

From The Guardian • Nov. 15, 2018

Perhaps the briefness of the elf’s presence—most parents bring it out sometime after Thanksgiving—keeps it from conditioning children to tolerate, even expect, constant surveillance.

From Slate • Dec. 14, 2011

Around the English game – or among English commentators – there were more subtle ruminations about Flintoff's commercial obsessions, his political power in the dressing room and the briefness of his glory years.

From The Guardian • Sep. 18, 2010

It is ours alone to foresee the briefness of our days; it is ours alone anxiously to question the grave regarding the last sleep.

From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander