Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] for [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The panic receded for the time being . |
| 2 | Moreover , with a politically more secure government and fewer power cuts ( the benefits of new investment were gradually coming through ) , the threat of public exposure could not be as effectively used by the Boards against Whitehall , though the mandarins remained for a time concerned that Citrine was aiming at such an anti-government campaign . |
| 3 | With the retirement of Thomas Goldney the firm reverted for a time to Pountney and Co , and eventually became known simply as the Bristol Pottery until its cessation in the 1960s . |
| 4 | He is what the children vote for every time . ’ |
| 5 | The patient improves for a time , say an hour or more , then either stops getting better and the picture becomes more or less static , or begins to slip back again with the same symptoms . |
| 6 | In the famous Middletown studies made by Robert and Helen Lynd the Lynds lived for a time in Muncie , Indiana , but were always known to be researchers . |