1.   A brief reprieve.

2.   But experts said the brief reprieve would affect very few of the thousands of immigrants faced with the decision of whether to stay or go.

3.   But experts said the drug, which requires twice-daily injection, may grant only a brief reprieve for patients with resistant forms of infection.

4.   For Gailey, however, it was at least a brief reprieve.

5.   It is a brief reprieve in a story that will turn harsher.

6.   So, during the brief reprieve from the bitter cold, they concentrate on making roots and leaves, not weight-bearing fibers like trunks and branches.

7.   Some slumping stocks were even granted a brief reprieve.

8.   That only provided Jones with a brief reprieve, as the Giants continued to pound him in the sixth inning.

9.   The decision gave recording companies a brief reprieve from the inevitable.

10.   The grants were cut back during the Reagan and Bush administrations but won a brief reprieve during the first two years of the Clinton presidency.