buy a little time造句

• It would buy a little time for PAL, say six months.
• But even taking the antidote only buys a little time as the planet is nearing its sun.
• So far, however, Putin has gone out of his way to lower expectations and perhaps buy a little time.
• She had been faking her amnesia to try to buy a little time for herself, to prevent the truth from coming out in an instant in Chicago.
• As Thailand's futile battle to defend the baht last year proved, when the markets lose faith in a currency, central intervention can only buy a little time, invariably at huge cost.
• Hernandez knew that Ramiro Mendoza was warming up, so when Jeter and Scott Brosius went to the mound, Hernandez knew that Torre had asked them to buy a little time for Mendoza to get ready.
• For the policy to do more than buy a little time, the recovery must become " self-sustaining " : consumers and businesses have to start spending enough to allow the government to return to fiscal responsibility without provoking a new recession.
• "It will buy a little time and if he gives India some of the 20 criminal and terrorist suspects in the next two weeks or so, further time could be bought, " said Amitabh Mattoo, a professor of international relations at Jawaharlal Nehru University.
• "The whole idea now is to buy a little time _ maybe two or three months _ until the new South Korean government is in place, " said a participant in three-way talks between the governments in Seoul and Washington and South Korea's lenders on three continents.
• "The whole idea now is to buy a little time, maybe two or three months, until the new South Korean government is in place, " said one of the participants in the three-way talks between the governments in Seoul and Washington and South Korea's lenders on three continents.
• Elevation of the legs may buy a little time, but is mainly one of those measures that gives people something to do while waiting for more effective help ( like smelling salts ); by itself it isn't likely to save a life . alteripse 17 : 53, 26 February 2006 ( UTC)