Example sentences of "for a time have " in BNC.
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| 1 | This might have shored up the dollar for a time had the US balance of payments improved as expected . |
| 2 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 3 | During the long ministry of Lord North ( 1770–82 ) he seemed for a time to have achieved this objective . |
| 4 | Also , coins seem for a time to have been minted in his name in Sigtuna ( on Lake Mälar , near modern Stockholm ) with the title REX SW ( king of Swedes ) , by a moneyer who had earlier struck for Anund Jacob . |
| 5 | Claims to suzerainty over the Scots , Irish and Welsh are thus far from unlikely , and may for a time have enjoyed a foundation in reality . |