Sentence examples for were for some time from inspiring English sources

After Frederick's death the Habsburgs were for some time ruled out as possible candidates for the German throne; but, under the brothers Albert II and Otto, Habsburg Austria received its first important accession of territory.

Also some other Italian (e.g. Subiaco, Farfa, Vallombrosa, S. Sophia in Benevento) and French abbeys (St. Victor at Marseille) were for some time ruled by the cardinal-abbots.

Beside bootstrapping, popular tools frequently used by systematists were for some time the estimation of consistency and of tree length distribution under the parsimony criterion [ 104- 108] and derived tests that measure departure from a model of randomness.

Rita was, for some time, inconsolable.

We're told they will be for some time.

She was home, and would be for some time.

But that is not likely to be for some time.

Perry has been, for some time, virtually critic-proof.

"It probably will be for some time," she said.

And the middle class, as it has been for some time, is progressively vanishing.

But some caveats are necessary, and probably will be for some time.