Sentence examples for become for a time from inspiring English sources

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— to become for a time the nation's leading jockey, died April 3 in Palm Harbor, Fla.

Santiago grew to become, for a time, the third largest city in the hemisphere (after Mexico City and Lima) and established itself as a bureaucratic, ecclesiastical, and commercial metropolis.

Rick Casares, a fullback for the Chicago Bears in the 1950s and '60s who bulled through defensive lines to become, for a time, the leading rusher in team history, and who once led the National Football League in rushing, died on Friday at his home in Tampa, Fla.

A theory like this one can become, for a time, self-reinforcing: Small company funds were set up and attracted a large inflow.

Having tried to "save Labour" as the "moderate" party it has always been, they have increased the chance that it will become, for a time at least, a mass party of the radical left.

While the negotiations were proceeding, Carleton has placed the freed slaves on a British ships and sent them off to Nova Scotia, where they would become, for a time, the largest community of free black men and women anywhere in the British territory of the Americas.

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After the Armistice he became for a time an enthusiastic socialist.

In death he became, for a time at least, an icon.

They're guardian angels!" At Farrar, Straus, Sandra Jordan became, for a time, L'Engle's editor.

Nonetheless, it was as a lovable goofball that he became, for a time, a British movie star.

He ultimately signed with England's Chelsea FC and became for a time the highest-paid footballer in the world.

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