Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] for [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime , the decision to allow purchases of gilts by banks and building societies to count as part of the funding programme will ease the monetary squeeze for the time being . |
| 2 | What with all this baring of fangs and of ultimate weapons , these snarlings and ‘ long-term psychic damage ’ , how is one to protest mildly that Prothero is — with an engagingly archaic elegance ( ‘ stamps a man too disadvantageously ’ ) — telling Pound that he need n't waste his time submitting manuscripts to the Quarterly Review for the time being ? |
| 3 | By investing a few million pounds into the anti-poaching forces of Kenya and Tanzania , as is happening at the moment , we will probably reduce and even stop the poaching problem for the time being but the long-term survival of the elephant in eastern Africa is going to depend ultimately on those countries ' abilities to incorporate wildlife and wild area protection into an overall land use policy . |
| 4 | Stick to the grand design for the time being . |
| 5 | As a sign of the future , Ernest Bevin , Minister of Labour , and one of the senior Labour Party ministers , said his party had rather different views on the matter , but would accept the general proposals for the time being . |
| 6 | The effect of reading a Bill a second time is to curb further debate on the general principle for the time being and cause the Bill to go straight to the next stage , which is the committee stage . |
| 7 | The snow is much worse as I finally move out , and the only consolation for the time it has taken is being alone , and arriving late so that the others have already begun on the tent and wood collecting . |
| 8 | If he showed them the latest Washington telegram which he had seen before his departure [ KPs 66 and 85 ] , they would have been made aware that although they had to exercise the utmost restraint for the time being , a new and firmer policy might soon be adopted . |
| 9 | Well we 're probably alright for the other things for the time being , but we may need about the the Weber erm . |
| 10 | The Russian Federation for a time revived the old tsarist name of ‘ State Council ’ for the main advisory body to the President ( Rahr , 1991 , pp. 9–12 ) . |
| 11 | Due to participate in the Shepway Airshow , held on the seafront at Folkestone , the P–38 is reported to have belly-landed at Lydd , blocking the main runway for a time , until the aircraft was lifted up , the undercarriage released , and it was towed into a hangar for the night . |