This is just a temporary phase on the way to far greater things.

It was only a temporary phase though, she told herself - just for a change.

For most it's a temporary phase, caused by a variety of factors - not least tiredness.

It was simply a temporary and local phase in an enormous game that is being played over the whole surface of the earth.

An incipient cataract may be heralded by a temporary phase of much improved vision.

I expect that this will be a temporary phase," he says, almost 18 months on, "because we are moving on.

A central, but temporary phase in this career is the stay in a monastery for a few of years.

Indeed, up until the late 1990's, he said, parents and others tended to regard teenage depression as a temporary phase of adolescence.

But that's only a temporary phase: they'll change their minds, they'll come back to him.

But this is only a temporary phase of maladjustment