After that, though there were occasional brief lapses, the child was able to maintain her good behavior with very little effort.

IT was a slip of the tongue, a brief lapse.

Perth remained competitive for the following decade despite a brief lapse that saw them fall to last in 1912.

They were now prepared to make up for that brief lapse.

After a brief lapse, Fate booked us in for more hardship.

But should Congress renew them after even a brief lapse, the budget rules say their revenue would be new money - and up for grabs.

Except for a brief lapse during the worst of the plague years, that growth had been near-exponential.

After a brief lapse of memory, she recalled what else she'd intended to say.

One brief lapse in the second set and, said the winner, "That was enough to let her get back into the match."

This was restarted in the mid-1980s after a brief lapse and has been performed each year since.