Minutes were no longer the issue; things had to be done within brief seconds.

Suddenly she wanted nothing more than to join her spirit to his, even if only for a brief second.

She looked down at Maureen, and their eyes met for a brief second.

He could not count them in the brief seconds left to him, there were so many.

For a few brief seconds he'd felt everything she was feeling.

I could tell by the way they looked at each other for a brief second.

It was all the work of a few brief seconds.

There was a way, however, to make those brief seconds serve.

It had all happened in a very few brief seconds.

During those brief two seconds it could have increased its lead by a great deal more than that.