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The special committee has not been a flash in the pan.
He is definitely not a flash in the pan, as someone apparently described him.
We only hope that it is not a flash in the pan.
I never suggested that these regulations were a flash in the pan.
It was not just a flash in the pan of one patient not being offered a bed.
That has not been a flash in the pan.
And they were not just a flash in the pan.
Fourthly, our spending decisions must be sustainable; they must not be a flash in the pan.
