The phrase "a temporary pause" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a brief interruption or break in an activity or process.
Example: "After a temporary pause in the meeting, we resumed our discussion on the project timeline."
Alternatives: "a brief halt" or "a short break".
"It's only a temporary pause in the recovery".
He says he thinks the nuclear renaissance is only taking a temporary pause.
At 3pm there had been a temporary pause while Welby waited outside the temporarily barred great doors of the Cathedral.
Most (but not all) people would say you aren't really interrupting; you just asked for a temporary pause.
Is this a temporary pause, the beginning of the much-vaunted soft landing or something worse?Most opinion on Wall Street favours a soft landing.
But the chance of successful peace negotiations appeared more remote, after the UN announced a "temporary pause" in the Geneva talks until 25 February.
Although most view the pause as a temporary interruption in a long-term warming trend, some disagree and say it has revealed serious flaws in the deliberative processes of the IPCC.
With a few temporary pauses in construction, Mr. Netanyahu has resisted.
Lavrov announced on Wednesday a temporary "humanitarian pause" to the bombardment of Aleppo to allow civilians to leave, and on Thursday 10,500 fled the city.
But a temporary humanitarian pause in the NATO attacks would need broad approval from NATO itself, as well as from international bodies and from the rebels fighting Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Italian government added.
Scientists aboard the MV Akademik Shokalskiy, a research vessel stuck in ice a few miles off the Antarctic coast, have used the temporary pause in their month-long expedition to carry out extra research projects into the state of ice and water around the frozen continent.
