The phrase "a temporary agreement" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a contract or understanding that is intended to last for a limited period of time.
Example: "We have reached a temporary agreement to collaborate on this project until the end of the year."
Alternatives: "a provisional agreement" or "a short-term agreement."
These talks are the culmination of a lot of work since a temporary agreement in Geneva a year ago.
On February 20th, the Eurogroup reached a temporary agreement.
Working out a temporary agreement with Brazil is a marked change in tactics for Mr. Zoellick.
The producer has a temporary agreement in place to waive its covenant breach until mid-November.
France, in a temporary agreement, recognized the internal autonomy of Laos under the king of Luang Prabang, Sisavang Vong.
He terminated June's contract and offered a temporary agreement to finish the season, charging significantly more to harvest the crop.
The effort to make a new temporary agreement is not worth the trouble it would provoke.
In public, Mr. López Aguilar and his deputies have mainly portrayed the proposal as egalitarian, intended to offer all of Spain's major religions the same treatment given the Roman Catholic Church, which has received state financing under a supposedly temporary agreement reached with the Vatican in 1979.
But now the economy is showing tentative signs of recovery, and the government has an (albeit temporary) agreement with the IMF.
News of the signing, on August 25, of a formal treaty of mutual assistance between Great Britain and Poland (to supersede a previous though temporary agreement) caused him to postpone the start of hostilities for a few days.
He added that imposing further nuclear-related sanctions on Iran -- as Menendez has said he hopes to do -- would be a violation of the temporary agreement under which the negotiations are being held.
