Example sentences of "do for [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's very small , only just room for the bunk , but it would do for a time . |
| 2 | though this must do for the time being . |
| 3 | You just tip it carefully that will do for the time being and eat those first |
| 4 | She 'll understand your anger and stop what she 's doing for the time being , but that wo n't stop her doing it again when you ca n't see . |
| 5 | For although the Home Rule movement did for a time grow apace , with an ever increasing number of SNP candidates being elected to Parliament and , under the Callaghan administration , the old High School building on Calton Hill being refurbished to accommodate a Scottish debating-chamber ( the old one had become incorporated in the Law Courts ) , the idea of Home Rule made many of my countrymen uneasy ; less , I think , about financial disadvantages ( for oil revenue would have compensated for that ) than at the prospect of feuding between east and west , north and south , and , for some , the prospect of a semi-permanent Labour administration ; and when in 1979 a referendum of the whole Scottish nation was held , the votes in favour of Home Rule did not attain the clear 40 per cent majority on which the House of Commons had insisted . |
| 6 | It did for a time seem to explain the trajectories of development and underdevelopment in some countries of Latin America , but when it was applied to Africa and Asia it was much less successful . |