Example sentences of "more than [art] temporary [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The CGT , for instance , has regarded collective bargaining as no more than a temporary measure of the balance of power between management and unions , enabling the union to obtain the best negotiating results for wage-earners at a given point in time ( Goetschy , 1983 ) .
2 However , for most airports with overall impact of the Tunnel is unlikely to be more than a temporary hiccup in the strong growth of traffic .
3 But this was no more than a temporary reversal in the most savage onslaught from England which the Scots had ever experienced .
4 Philistinism is rife , and it is high time for some loud restatement of the old conservationist maxim that ownership is no more than a temporary rental on the nation 's heritage .
5 On waking , it occurred to her with renewed conviction that the experience of two days before might have been no more than a temporary aberration of an exhausted mind .
6 She had repeatedly told herself her response to his touch was nothing more than a temporary aberration on her part , that familiarity must inevitably breed contempt , that sooner or later she would feel nothing more than irritation .
7 In short , tariffs by themselves would have been unlikely to have provided little more than a temporary palliative to ailing industries over the period under review .
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