The phrase "assumed for a time" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a temporary belief or understanding that is not necessarily permanent or definitive.
Example: "The theory was assumed for a time, but further research proved it to be inaccurate."
Alternatives: "taken as a given temporarily" or "presumed for a period".
It was assumed for a long time the history of these two processes is the same, and we think it has become time to explicitly separate them.
I too had assumed for a long time that the Jags would be the obvious choice for a team to move to London, but now I'm not so sure.
While uncertainty became recognized as useful, or even essential, in statistical mechanics and in some other areas (such as the actuarial profession or the design of large-scale telephone exchanges), it was assumed for a long time that the "probability theory" was capable of capturing the full scope of uncertainty.
I think what some people assumed for a long time is that the religious conservatives, the younger generation of us, would become divided out between the Democrat and Republican Parties, and that didn't happen.
Also prophesied is the Omega (known in the Pitch Document as Omega The Destroyer and the Antichrist), whom Carnivàle's occult characters had assumed for a long time to be one and the same with the Usher.
It has been assumed for a long time that ants and other social insects compare a set of cues, the label (CHC-profile of a given individual analogous to a bar-code), with a learned template (inner representation of the colony-specific CHC-profile stored in the long-term memory) [28], [32], [52] [53].
A crosstalk between DNA methylation and demethylation and chromatin structure has been assumed for a long time.
Although they have been assumed for a long time to protect cellular and molecular structures from the damaging effect of desiccation [ 8], only recent results shed some light on their precise action.
It has been widely assumed for some time now that I would eventually quit our league.
It's been pretty much assumed for some time that Jason Kenney and his United Conservative Party will defeat Rachel Notley's NDP in the next provincial election.
