Analysts believe the pain should be relatively short-lived as inflation is brought back down again next year and nominal wages continue to creep higher.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
This was disingenuous, for he knew well that popular enthusiasm is no less sincere for being relatively short-lived.
Hugh Bicheno REBELS AND REDCOATS: The American Revolutionary War (2003)
The reason is that the victory was relatively short-lived.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)