temporary nature

collocation in English

meaningsoftemporaryandnature

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temporary
adjective
uk
/ˈtem.pər.ər.i/us
/ˈtem.pə.rer.i/
not lasting or needed for ...
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nature
noun
uk
/ˈneɪ.tʃər/us
/ˈneɪ.tʃɚ/
all the animals, plants, rocks, etc. in the world and all the features, forces, and processes that happen or exist independently of people, such as the weather, the sea, mountains, the production of young animals or plants, ...
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(Definition oftemporaryandnaturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Consequently, women and non-heir sons were given an inheritance of atemporarynature.
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One was the small scale,temporarynatureof nineteenth-century brickworks.
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Generally, the wooden crosses were of atemporarynature, which would be replaced the following season by gravestones.
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Because of thetemporarynatureof the rightward ductal shunting, only limited interpretations and comparisons were possible.
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Regardless of the oftentemporarynatureof the decision, it was understood in the terminology of moral ethnicity.
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This centred on objects noticed on the route, but ones with atemporarynature, such as litter.
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It is of a rathertemporarynature.
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These were of a strictlytemporarynature.
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I stress again thetemporarynatureof the scheme.
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It is not an increase merely of atemporarynature.
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However, it is bound to be of atemporarynature.
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Thetemporarynatureof this provision is quite clear.
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I emphasise that it is of only atemporarynature.
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He is worried about thetemporarynatureof the club.
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Further, there is thetemporarynatureof the occupation.
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The arrangement then was of atemporarynature.
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It is similar to thetemporarynatureof direct rule.
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Itstemporarynatureis consistent with our normal commercial policy.
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I still believe it must be of atemporarynature.
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That form of insanity is commonly of atemporarynature.
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Local shortages have generally been of atemporarynature.
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My only worry concerns thetemporarynatureof the help.
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I supported them as war taxes of atemporarynature.
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These provisions are, however, of atemporarynature.
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For those who can borrow, low current income of atemporarynatureis less likely to be associated with reports of material hardship.
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