Example sentences of "more than a temporary [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 However the Tube is not designed as anything more than a temporary tent so it should n't be expected to give normal tent performance .
2 The CGT , for instance , has regarded collective bargaining as no more than a temporary measure of the balance of power between management and unions , enabling the union to obtain the best negotiating results for wage-earners at a given point in time ( Goetschy , 1983 ) .
3 However , for most airports with overall impact of the Tunnel is unlikely to be more than a temporary hiccup in the strong growth of traffic .
4 Vienna Dear Fräulein , I hope and believe the sad condition you describe is no more than a temporary fantasy .
5 ‘ Despite your obvious fondness for the place , you 're none the less nothing more than a temporary caretaker .
6 But this was no more than a temporary reversal in the most savage onslaught from England which the Scots had ever experienced .
7 Philistinism is rife , and it is high time for some loud restatement of the old conservationist maxim that ownership is no more than a temporary rental on the nation 's heritage .
8 Although upon return to Canada for what might prove to be no more than a temporary visit the mother 's situation might be unsatisfactory and she might suffer discomfort or perhaps even hardship , there is no evidence that there is a risk , let alone a great one , that the child 's return would place him in a situation which is intolerable .
9 But still it was clear that , amidst her preoccupations , there was scarcely room to think of him as anything more than a temporary ally .
10 On waking , it occurred to her with renewed conviction that the experience of two days before might have been no more than a temporary aberration of an exhausted mind .
11 She had repeatedly told herself her response to his touch was nothing more than a temporary aberration on her part , that familiarity must inevitably breed contempt , that sooner or later she would feel nothing more than irritation .
12 In short , tariffs by themselves would have been unlikely to have provided little more than a temporary palliative to ailing industries over the period under review .
13 Some cardiologists complained that the heart could never be more than a temporary remedy and that the money spent on the research could be better used for drug therapies and other techniques .
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