breathing space

What we need at the moment is some breathing space.

They would give him a breathing space while he thought out the next move.

I did the head first to give me breathing space to get to know what he was like.

At any rate, he now had a little breathing space.

That will give us a breathing space to sort things out.

It was as if they were to be given a breathing space.

But I was happy to have some breathing space of my own.

But at least for a little while, there would be some breathing space.

What I can certainly do is buy us a breathing space.

There was just too much going on, and I needed some breathing space.

We need breathing space for five years, and then it would go back up.

The longer he talked, the more of a breathing space she had.

Also the breathing space of the player is less open.

The others would take time, but he'd bought himself some breathing space.

That gives us a breathing space, he thought, and looked ahead again.

But in the breathing space they earned her, she began to understand.

At last, just before lunch, he found a breathing space.

So, for now, the Coalition has a bit of political breathing space.

These few years of breathing space since his last works turn out to be crucial.

I've always thought their talk of breathing space was a political mask.

It seemed, therefore, that we could use a breathing space.

That will gain time and give you some breathing space.

"We're saying you need breathing space to take all the issues into consideration."

But retailers may have some breathing space in the first several months of the year.

All we needed was the bank's cooperation and a bit of a breathing space.