for the time being

• “I wallowed for the time being in the luxury of beachcombing.”

  The Confessions of a Beachcomber

• “The stiff and stately Oublicheff confesses, with many compunctions of conscience, that, when listening for the first time to one of Rossini's operas, he forgot for the time being all that he had ever known, admired, played, or sung, for he was musically drunk, as if with champagne.”

  The Great Italian and French Composers

• “He had decided to put his semiautobiographical novel, Anslem, aside for the time being and try something more commercial.”

  Simon & Schuster: MILLENNIUM

• “With Greek restructuring risk now negligible for the time being and the U.S. data unlikely to show any firmness until July at the earliest the U.S. dollar looks set for another bout of potentially material weakness in the near term," Westpac Bank said in a note to clients.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Asia Slips; Tepco Slides

• “When Dr. Hunter came to town and stood in the pulpit of the old chapel, the choir was for the time being forgotten by the audience in their eagerness to catch the melody and follow in the strain of new song sure to issue from the mouth of this great singer.”

  " Eagle Clippings " by Jack Thorne, Newspaper Correspondent and Story Teller, A Collection of His Writings to Various Newspapers

• “The several working bees had gotten beams, scantlings and cladding up, shingles on the roof and a path from the front doorstep down to the spring; for the time being they would finish only the ground floor, deal with upstairs when an upstairs was necessary.”

  Simon & Schuster: Morgan’s Run

• “He was, indeed, deeply and warmly affectionate, but troublesome through outbreaks of will and temper, showing all the ordinary instinct of trying how far the authorities for the time being will endure resistance; sufficiently indolent of mind to use his excellent abilities to save exertion of intellect; passionate to kicking and screaming pitch, and at times showing the doggedness which is such a trial of patience to the parent.”

  Life of John Coleridge Patteson

• “The Germans have for the time being “done-up” the Russians; but the French have shells enough to plough the German trenches day and night (they've been at it for a fortnight now); Joffre has been to see the Italian generalissimo; and the English destroy German submarines now almost as fast as the Germans send them out.”

  The Life and Letters of Walter H Page

• “Apparently hard hit, the “houtcast,” who for the time being certainly had some grounds for so styling himself, leaned with his back against the gate, as if the effort to stand upright was too much for him on the top of his recent disappointment.”

  Under the Dragon Flag

• “This simple if depressing answer to the question which had defeated him silenced Campion for the time being as he reproached himself for not realising that Miss Evadne was just the person to insist on playing detective in her own way and alone.”

  More Work for the Undertaker

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