go through a phase
go through a stage

She's going through a phase where she doesn't want you to put her down.

You have to focus on doing the right thing and realize that you're just going through a phase.

Give it up Guardian, they are not just going through a phase!

Most teenagers go through a phase in which they argue a lot with their parents.

Or maybe I was just going through a phase.

She went through a phase of being such a catty girl.

"Tennessee went through a phase of not being appreciated at all," she says.

Trace went through a phase of touching people's hair if he liked them.

Lou Ann was going through a phase of cutting her own hair every other day.

Her parents, more concerned with their own issues, believe their daughter is just going through a phase.

I remember when my father told me my 35-year-old brother was "going through a phase."

"In Germany now, we will be going through a phase of consolidation, no question," he said.

She went through a phase where she was extremely hot.

A marriage, a career, a hobby - they're good for twenty years, and maybe you go through a phase more than once.

Her kids: "When my son was seven, he went through a phase of asking some amazing questions.

Lately the town has been going through a phase of modernisation.

They're going through a phase where they're not pitching well.

At first people assumed he was just going through a phase, then they started to view him as a kook.

"We're just going through a phase," said Lane, who made 12 of 25 shots.

My teenage daughter is going through a phase in which she doesn't want to be seen in public with her parents.

"After all, Ludovic may just be going through a phase.

And she was going through a phase of craving dark, bitter chocolate.

"All new nations go through a phase like this.

I knew a couple who were both going through a phase ofspiritual adolescence and doubt.

But Broadway was going through a phase of decay.

All natural behaviour has, therefore, become so by going through a stage of being unnatural.

I went through a stage of wearing mostly black with my cape.

The club have been disappointing in recent years and are going through a stage of rebuilding.

She hoped Dirk didn't go through a stage like this when he was older.

A patient generally first goes through a staging process to see if s/he can benefit from local treatment.

"I'm pretty convinced that every adolescent, no matter who you are, goes through a stage of feeling separate or different," she went on.

Then he went through a stage of "cruising," picking up strangers.

"Plenty of cultures go through a stage of thinking they're right and anyone different is wrong."

These studies gave rise to the view that children went through a stage of treating less as if it was synonymous with more.

I thought I was just going through a stage.

"They went through a stage where they wanted to be cops.

I went through a stage when I was pretty mad at God.

The world of agriculture is going through a stage with which you are quite familiar and which I therefore do not need to describe again.

"I'm going through a stage," she admits, "where I don't like these heroine types very much.

She went through a stage when she hated her name and decided to change it to "Trudy. "

To put it bluntly, the child goes through a stage of sheer 'bloody mindedness'.

Remember that some children go through a stage of getting into fights because they can't see other face-saving ways of responding to a challenge.

As most children did, Joseph was going through a stage in which he was utterly consumed by starships.

This evolution dictates that these proposed standards go through a stage of selection-over time, we see some become more dominant than others.

They had the great teams and then they went through a stage when they were not so good and now they're rebuilding.

And it is not merely by chance, not merely because children go through a stage of prefacing everything with "Why?"

'You know how common kids go through a stage of pulling the wings off flies?' '

Although children without autism go through a stage where they repeat what they hear, it normally passes by the time they are 3.

Near the star, the planetary embryos go through a stage of violent mergers, producing a few terrestrial planets.

Children go through a stage of babbling before they talk, they crawl before they walk.