In his brief human life he had never known such pain!

For the first time in his brief life, he had things other than money to consider.

The magic no longer gave them more than a brief life.

She had never smiled like that in her entire too brief life.

The college has had three homes in its relatively brief life.

Indeed, the movement as a whole had only a brief life, and by the 1690s it was already becoming past history.

The first rocket had reached the end of its brief life.

How often, in her brief life, had she been a prisoner?

Our baby was hospitalized for most of his brief life.

He had employed it himself in his brief life as a defense attorney.