Example sentences of "for a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a time there was chaos . |
| 2 | In Australia , all launching is done this way , and for a time it was common in the U.S.A. The disadvantages , however , of the low tow position are as follows . |
| 3 | ’ So they romanced for a time , whispering on the edge of sleep , until a noise of footsteps , first a few and then large numbers , came from the road outside . |
| 4 | They clasped hands and held them clasped for a time . |
| 5 | If a relative wants to collect the ashes they can be collected or sent , but they will only be kept free for a time ( usually about a month ) — a charge will be made after that time . |
| 6 | Indeed , for a time it enabled the service to become an all HST operation so that some places actually had a better service . |
| 7 | Frustrations will cloud your horizons for a time but you will shake them off and emerge well pleased with your efforts . |
| 8 | The idea of ‘ revolution ’ can set the pulses racing , for a time at least , and in 1980 it was invoked by Catherine Belsey : ‘ Only by closing the doors of the English department against theoretical challenges from outside can we continue to ignore the ‘ Copernican' ’ revolution which is currently taking place , and which is radically undermining traditional ways of perceiving both the world and the text . ’ |
| 9 | They go on to exchange roles as well as jobs , and finally , for a time , wives . |
| 10 | For a time teachers of literature could assume that they were in but not of the academy , and keep a healthy distance from institutional pressures . |
| 11 | For a time she became a pony-dealer , buying horses from tinkers and selling them on to English buyers . |
| 12 | INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS Surrealism and erotic fantasy are recurring themes in a retrospective on Meret Oppenheim , the German-Swiss artist , who for a time was a model and follower of Man Ray . |
| 13 | Some 65,000 cars a day are illegally parked and anyone unlucky enough to get caught in future could lose their driving licence for a time . |
| 14 | For a time , the Social Democrats seemed able to appeal to disaffected middle-class Tories and to moderate opinion of all shades . |
| 15 | Military victory in the Falklands gave Britain a new stature for a time , but by 1987 the impact of this had disappeared . |
| 16 | There seemed grounds for believing that the Thatcher government was , at least for a time , losing direction . |
| 17 | He went to Gouesnou during a recent visit to meet friends who helped him to evade capture for a time . |
| 18 | He was reliever to feel a slight tug as the parachute eventually opened ; it was bitter cold but fortunately he was being blown away from the capital 's fires , and after drifting for a time , hit the ground ‘ like a wet sack ’ . |
| 19 | It had large sales for a time in England and America , but it had neither the originality nor the power of his first book . |
| 20 | But if cheating is necessary , you can commonly get away with it for a time . |
| 21 | For a time it seemed that Moran might choose to remain seated and force McQuaid to make his own way out of the house . |
| 22 | Nothing happened with the turbine , but the V8 got as far as running in prototype form in the James Bond Esprit , which Rudd used as his personal car for a time . |
| 23 | His death quite literally shattered the Prince and for a time he lost all sense of purpose . |
| 24 | There were British studios , like Rank 's Independent Producers or Ealing in the 1940s , that , for a time at least , produced a similarly productive working environment , providing constraints for directors and writers to work against , and dedicated script departments which produced competent material for them to work from . |
| 25 | With his entrepreneurial skills , and his international connections , he seemed for a time the man most likely to lead the British film industry away from its artisanal base , but he turned out to be no more responsive than anyone else to developments that were going to make things very difficult for the pioneers . |
| 26 | For a time Rank produced films that really could compete against American pictures . |
| 27 | For a time Ealing was as closely in touch with the hopes and frustrations of post-war audiences as were the directors and writers working for Rank 's Independent Producers . |
| 28 | Absorbing many of the energies that had been concentrated in Independent Producers , Korda 's London Films was able for a time to resist the drift towards cosiness . |
| 29 | Even these unpretentious , non-vintage champagnes benefit from keeping for a time ; the great champagnes repay keeping for years and years . |
| 30 | The elusive creature may be successfully trailed for a time , then disappear for months and even years . |