The phrase "a temporary thing and" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing something that is not permanent and is expected to change or end after a certain period.
Example: "I see this job as a temporary thing and I'm looking for more permanent opportunities in the future."
Alternatives: "a short-term matter" or "a fleeting situation".
"It's a temporary thing, and I'll eventually get round to finding somewhere.
"But if it looks like a temporary thing and private-sector job growth is continuing," he added, "one would hope it would level off and come down again.
And you realize this is a temporary thing and there's going to be another sucking sound that runs our deficit through the roof.
It was meant to be a temporary thing and then it turned into 30,000 pounds of steel, which is probably going to outlast the house itself".
"Let's admit it: when we went to 12 pitchers, that was a temporary thing, and we're still in a temporary mode now," Torre said before tonight's game.
But no matter what knocks us down, we have the option of considering it to be a temporary thing and then getting back up and recommitting to stumbling toward our goal.
Putting their relationship on ice, the couple declared through a spokeswoman that their split was "a temporary thing, a mutual and amicable decision".
Most of the foreign policy establishment doesn't care about the region at all, and the ones who do mainly share the view that the leftward shift is a temporary thing that can and should be reversed.
"I thought the LSAT tutoring gig was going to be a temporary thing, but five years and one bar admission renewal later, here I am," he said.
An armistice had actually been signed eighteen months before, but the captain believed an armistice to be only a temporary thing until the battles resumed and one side massacred the other to the last man".
It can be a result of being injured, abused, neglected, bullied, and so on and is usually a temporary thing.
