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Hindu art and scholarship spread through the islands, but on most of the islands, this flowering was short-lived.
He concluded that a brief intervention might have a short-lived effect that degrades over time.
Suddenly, the current budget surplus looks short-lived indeed.
The estimates of misfirings like this run as high as fifteen percent by those who fire flintlocks these days, when the expression signifies an intense but short-lived success or a person who fails to live up to his or her early promise.
Attributed in part to antigenic drift are the moderately high failure rate and the short-lived efficacy of influenza vaccines [ 6], the failure of synthetic foot-and-mouth disease virus vaccines [ 7], and the inability of recombinant HIV vaccines to provide complete protection against field strains of the virus [ 8].