Examples of 'bought time' in a sentence
Meaning of "bought time"
bought time: This phrase is often used to describe a situation where someone has delayed or extended a deadline, avoided a negative outcome, or gained additional time to complete a task or address an issue
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- simple past tense and past participle of buy time
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bought time
You bought time to save your friends.
My staying behind in the wine cellar bought time.
The doctor bought time to put it together.
More often than not it was an interim measure which bought time for solutions.
At least we bought time to set up surveillance on her.
Now Yeltsin has bought time.
We bought time for tomorrow night.
Spain has bought time.
I bought time until tomorrow night.
Salvini has bought time.
It bought time for people to prepare.
I literally bought time.
So you bought time for all the refugees to get here.
The Arabs bought time.
You bought time as the bleeding was slowed down and you established your alibi.
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This stability has had to be bought time and again with high interest rates.
He bought time by placing Saab in a reconstruction process under bankruptcy protection.
The government 's emergency response over the weekend bought time.
Excess liquidity bought time for a precarious world.
I bought time to find the facts I need to tell me what happened to Nestor Olivos.
What is clear is that in all regions, monetary policy has bought time and space.
We have bought time once again.
But Draghi and Merkel - at no little cost - have bought time to tackle the problems.
He must have bought time on the other channels too.
I did not buy that kind of time . I bought time.
So you bought time with me.
Orel fell to the Germans, but Katukov s tanks bought time to reinforce Tula.
So she bought time by lying.
We have done everything - hired a flock of detectives, bought time on the radio.
His intervention bought time for emergency services to arrive.
That 's why we arranged for a commercial and bought time on the in-state nets.
They had bought time time that would prove crucial.
I can not believe she bought Time 4 Tacos.
And we will have bought time to actually retrieve the component from the chinese.
Above all, it bought time.
They had bought time for all but one of the American guns to be removed.
I have heard about the horror . I bought time until tomorrow night.
He bought time using the current American distaste for military action in the MENA.
They manoeuvred, delayed and bought time to preserve the national interest . ".
We bought time on the station 's home shopping show.
We have done everything… hired detectives, advertised in the newspapers, bought time on the radio.
He bought time and summoned troops from other areas!
You are always working . - So you bought time with me.
By collaborating, you bought time to secretly develop a way to combat the aliens.
For now, the Isenbergs have bought time.
He bought time by borrowing from the IMF ” said the economist.
Accidents happen. That's why we arranged for a commercial and bought time on the in-state nets.
The doctor bought time to put it together . - Search his patient files for addicts.
Most importantly, Langen bought time.
The charge bought time for the Americans, and the British did not pursue.
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