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breathing spaces
n. (plural of breathing space English)
Usage examples of "breathing spaces".
Though it looked as if there might be just one World War, with breathing spaces for re-arming, that would last until somebody won.
Not uneventful in the sense of nothing happening and it being an easy trek, but rather in the sense of it being a seemingly unending slog of relentless tedium, with nothing to break up the monotony and put marker points or breathing spaces in the day.
The central courts or patios, instead of being cramped breathing spaces, were almost small parks.
Not for them the contraceptive gas that permeated Folk breathing spaces.
They may even have brief breathing spaces between their efforts to survive.