Example sentences of "[adv prt] for the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Patten stays on for the time being as party chairman while he and Mr Major consider what should happen . |
| 2 | So we sort of like trying to hang on for the time being about the door . |
| 3 | If , for instance , there has been a cold wind blowing for several days and the water temperature has been well down for the time of year , then the wind ceases and the sun brings a sudden warmth to the water , you can almost guarantee that the carp will begin to feed . |
| 4 | Peace within the new boundaries allowed Milan to make up for the time lost during the bloody years of Napoleon 's campaigns and the Risorgimento . |
| 5 | So that 's it — we deduct five overs and three runs for the rain interruption , plus another eight overs and four runs to make up for the time it 's taken us to work it out . |
| 6 | It shuts him up for the time being , and I 'm not going to give him the satisfaction of thinking his insolence cuts any ice with me . |
| 7 | I 'd have taken in lodgers only for the war , but the solicitor advised me just to close the place up for the time being . |
| 8 | ‘ You can do nothing to make up for the time that 's been wasted checking for a link between that incident and the murder of Hal MacQuillan . ’ |
| 9 | Please forgive the shortish letter , but I am trying to catch up for the time I was ill , and have quite a heavy teaching programme . |
| 10 | So it 's I I counted it up for the time I 'm staying . |
| 11 | that makes up for the time you , then doing the |
| 12 | ( There is a lot to be said about the role of other persons too , but I am leaving that out for the time being . ) |
| 13 | She reached out for the time and found that she had over forty hours still to go before she met the contact again . |
| 14 | ‘ Given the present and foreseeable state of fishery resources in the Community and the degree to which fishing fleets have so far been restructured , the full-scale liberalisation of the activities of undertakings must be ruled out for the time being … |
| 15 | A boyfriend came with her , rather unkempt , so keep him out for the time being at least . |
| 16 | The only major event of the campaign , the call by Michel Rocard for a political ‘ big bang ’ on the Left to allow the creation of a new , broad based , social democratic party , appears to have fizzled out for the time being . |
| 17 | Erm with a thing like this , I mean what I usually say to people it depends on erm if you 've got a lot of numerical data , oh you might as well have this back for the time being so |
| 18 | The same applies to Eckhard Pfeiffer , who has certainly turned Compaq Computer Corp around for the time being , but has not been in the job long enough to demonstrate proven staying power . |