Sentence examples for having for a time from inspiring English sources

Having for a time been like a big brother to many children in Cunningham's program, Spinks is proud of Alexander's success, saying, "I've always said Devon's a beautiful fighter, and now he's proving it".

They knew each other by sight, both having for a time hung around the University of Chicago and been associated with various little-theatre groups that originated on or around its campus.

Both had for a time supported Henri Pétain's collaborationist government after the French had been defeated in 1940.

Nor was there any mention of the fact that Mr. Chavez had, for a time, apparently duped the authorities.

In 1977, Roy Meadow, a British pediatrician, published an account of two children whose symptoms had, for a time, baffled him.

Being a Netjetter had for a time granted me the illusion of freedom from this everyday routine, organization and control.

Recent violence in the Niger Delta had for a time crippled 40percentt of the country's vital oil production.

At times it is necessary for a country to have, for a time, some form or other of dictatorial power.

The theory had for a time adherents in high places, notably the great physical chemist Irving Langmuir.

A minority of economists, notably Gary Becker, have for a long time been interested in time-use.

Have for a long time, years.