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What’s the difference between “for the time being” and “for the present time”? Are they the same?
What’s the difference between “for the time being” and “for the present time”? Are they the same?
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@JWLiu for the time being is more used and it means “____ will be a certain way for now”.
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@JWLiu for the time being is more used and it means “____ will be a certain way for now”.
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@msmnz thank you for answering, but sorry I can’t understand the sentence between the quotation marks
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@JWLiu ‘time being’ means something will be that way for now,
“my mom is sick, so my dad will drive me to school for the time being”
something like this
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