Example sentences of "were [vb pp] for [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these jealousies and disappointments and doubts were forgotten for the time being in the face of adversity . |
| 2 | During my first year as a prisoner some of us were moved for a time from Silesia to a camp in the Polish corridor . |
| 3 | An engineer designing a horseless carriage is not obliged to retain structural features that existed solely to adapt the carriage to the horse ( although , in fact , such primitive features were retained for a time ) . |
| 4 | History , Sociology , Philosophy and Psychology were enshrined for a time . |
| 5 | One or two , their horses killed under them , were held for a time unable to fall , and others slithered into the river , its shore by now churned into slime , and drowned there in their harness . |