as a temporary measure

This was only meant to be a temporary measure until the business found its feet again.

According to the camp's staff this is a temporary measure.

The occupation was clearly a temporary measure, such as the one in Iraq is.

So instead of a temporary measure, we get a permanent tax cut.

Two years ago, as a "temporary measure," the city began housing about 60 young children in groups of six.

They put them up after the war as a temporary measure.

The temporary measure will cut the Government's spending significantly below this year's level.

As many of you will know, the decision itself is a temporary measure.

"The furniture and the site were not a temporary measure," he said.

She gave me one of hers as a temporary measure.