Treasury officials speak of their belief that a "brief, technical" recession in the British economy is now inevitable.

Due to a credit squeeze, the economy had gone into a brief recession in 1961.

In the report, the Administration forecasts a mild and brief recession that will end this summer.

For while stock prices fell in 1957, as the country endured a brief recession, the slide was not a deep one.

They expected a brief recession, a soft landing from the speculative boom of the Reagan years.

During the Bush administration, which featured a brief recession in 1990-91 followed by a slow recovery, 11 states lost jobs.

But most of the country continued to grow until a brief recession arrived in 1990.

And the brief 1990-91 recession did not stop the wave.

A brief but severe recession begins in the United States.

The economy did not appreciate being forced up-market; it went into a brief recession.