Example sentences of "[adv] for a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes the polyphony is treated in a free manner , voices imitating each other loosely for a time and then taking a free course until imitations begin again . |
| 2 | Yeah , hold on for a time , I 'll be with you in a minute . |
| 3 | But it would be only for a time and she had been thinking of asking the queen-dowager for permission to leave sanctuary and visit her mother . |
| 4 | A quick , sharp beverage that hits you in the throat and then in the guts ; that changes , perhaps only for a time , your way of seeing the world ? |
| 5 | ‘ It 's only for a time , ’ Fred said on the last night of the tour . |
| 6 | At a time when only the Northumbrians , and then only for a time in the reign of Eadberht ( 737–58 ) , minted coins of pure silver , southern England experienced a decline in the quality of its sceattas . |
| 7 | Surely , to get her out of that tedious place — if only for a time — must be a better answer . |
| 8 | Besides these major product innovations , the eurobond market has seen a plethora of subsidiary innovations , many of which have been one off or flourished only for a time . |
| 9 | Dorothy , left in the bigger house , alone for a time and then , later , with Alice and Jasper , seemed to have fewer friends . |
| 10 | There is nothing whatever to do about it , except , possibly , to put it down for a time . |
| 11 | Press restrictions were imposed ( but quickly lifted ) and the weekly current affairs magazine Caretas was closed down for a time , commentators thereby inferring that the chief target of the coup was APRA . |
| 12 | When Jean Hay had become Jean Keith , it was only natural that she assumed head girl status , so for a time , things were a little uncomfortable . |
| 13 | He will not feel able to leave , and so for a time he will strive to manage alone . |
| 14 | Whereby the whole church family , broke up into groups for a period of education , and then came together for a time of celebration and worship . |
| 15 | She had hoped , as women do , that living together for a time would break down his coldness . |
| 16 | We may face the black night together for a time . |
| 17 | He struck out at them and soared upwards and they fell away for a time . |
| 18 | ‘ Gone away for a time . ’ |
| 19 | Thus for a time after 1905 alien influence in Northeast Asia became a less immediate question . |
| 20 | ‘ All the same , ’ he said , when the spring buds burst on the seven trees that grew in Mafeking Street , along which Wendy had once half-run , half-walked , on her way to give birth to Apricot , ‘ it would be nice to be somewhere different , just for a time , just for a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 21 | But ( as medieval quacks knew ) more easily for a time , with the patient bled of his humours . |
| 22 | There are indications that the mill was turned over for a time for saw milling , and possibly even cider production . |
| 23 | Certainly there would have been no satisfaction in such behaviour if the would-be escaper had not for a time at any rate believed in himself |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , I would n't mind that , not for a time anyway . |
| 25 | On the other hand , order out of chaos and the rebirth of a defeated nation were admirable reasons for being attracted to Fascism , yet they were n't the real ones in her case , and even if Hitler had mesmerised her very conclusively for a time , she was older and wiser now and able to revise her view of a man who could change his principles so casually in the light of expediency . |
| 26 | And Rosalba roused her heavy , hollow limbs and submitted to the tasks , finding in the repetitiousness of domestic labours a lulling routine that could still for a time the kind of sickness she had contracted . |
| 27 | He crouched still for a time after that , for there was no haste , and now that it was time he found himself afraid ; there might be something to lose there , as well as something to find . |
| 28 | And , since the casualty list of the Westland Affair , there have been signs that the Thatcher Cabinet may function more collectively for a time at least . |
| 29 | The Falklands obliged Mrs Thatcher to behave more collectively for a time , as did the unexpectedly hostile reaction across the political spectrum to her handling of the trade-union issue at GCHQ , where policy-making by cabal truly backfired . |
| 30 | In order to defuse this rivalry , Dycarbas resolves that both sons should leave home for a time . |