The phrase "a temporary pattern" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a situation or behavior that is not permanent and may change over time.
Example: "The data revealed a temporary pattern in consumer behavior during the holiday season."
Alternatives: "a fleeting trend" or "a short-lived pattern."
Some airplanes were left in a temporary hold pattern, and some were diverted to other airports.
They found that the altered genes could be grouped on the basis of their temporary pattern of expression.
The sophisticated atheist will inform you that in a vast and complicated cosmos, there will inevitably be temporary patterns that give the appearance of some divine design.
Our results need to be corroborated in larger series of patients treated with current adjuvant systemic therapies; however, transferring knowledge regarding temporary patterns of recurrence in the development and design of future clinical trials in the adjuvant setting could be considered in establishing the timing or schedule of treatment administration that would be more effective.
A temporary two-way traffic pattern will be installed along Maryland Avenue from Oliver Street to North Avenue.
A temporary two-way traffic pattern will be installed along W. Lafayette Avenue from Falls Road to Maryland Avenue to allow access to city yards and local businesses.
That's why Detroit's alarming population decline first reported this week in the Times signals what can only be a temporary passage in the patterns of global settlement beginning right here in America.
If the next election produces a return to single-party government, the current coalition will look like a freak event, a temporary interruption to the traditional pattern.
This risk derived from the fact that the compressor operated with a start stop pattern, enabling a temporary rise of internal temperature above initial freezing point and thus reducing total time to preserve the whole product.
In previous studies we were able to demonstrate that fracture healing leads to a temporary alteration of the expression pattern as well as alteration of the quantity of the expressed growth factor in humans.
