for a time

adverb

For a relatively short period of time (in the past).

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Meanings

adverbfor a time (not comparable)
  1. not comparableFor a relatively short period of time (in the past).

    My experience with Vorticella led me for a time into the false supposition that this sort of fungous disfiguration, which makes Self disagreeably larger, was most common to the female sex; […]

    [1879], George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “[Impressions of Theophrastus Such.] Diseases of Small Authorship.”, in Impressions of Theophrastus Such, Essays and Leaves from a Note-book, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, pages 148–149
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Chicago

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