Example sentences of "[noun] was for a time " in BNC.

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1 While Brunner 's theology was for a time regarded , especially in Britain and America , as more ‘ moderate ’ than Barth 's , and therefore preferable , he must now be regarded as the less radical and less creative of the two .
2 True , revolution was for a time a strong possibility , if not a probability ; and as true , such a revolution would of course have been seen as the means to industrial democracy by those who sought it .
3 At the end of teaching , the long street towards the centre of Cullbridge was for a time a babble of noise , with scuffles , cap-snatching and schoolboy indecencies hurled from green-blazered groups on one side to green-blazered groups on the other .
4 They tell us that a stonemason 's third marriage at 57 was his happiest ; or that a retired doctor found ‘ life was for a time difficult ’ for lack of ‘ any special hobbies . ’
5 When the Foreign Office List made its first appearance " it was strongly objected to in certain quarters , as likely to afford information to the general public with regard to the office , which they thought it advisable they should not possess , and much information was for a time withheld " .
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