Synonyms:
intervening
Meaning: occurring or falling between events or points in time; "so much had happened during the intervening years"
Usage examples
No agent or influence intervening, a thing may yet be removed a long way from gratification.
The intervening Thursday was Thanksgiving Day; most of the boys had gone home; the school had holiday.
Neither does it appear from what matter a body can be daily generated large enough to fill the intervening hemisphere.
Before the German could face about, Lanyard, moving almost noiselessly in his bare feet, had covered more than half the intervening space.
We overlook the fact that in growth there is ground to be covered between an initial stage of process and the completing period; that there is something intervening.
In the midst of the intervening twilight, however, before I entered what appeared to be the darkest portion of the forest, I saw a country maiden coming towards me from its very depths.
It is impossible, and even undesirable, to have a garden in blossom all over, and groups of flower-beauty are all the more enjoyable for being more or less isolated by stretches of intervening greenery.
Now no local movement of a body can be instantaneous, as everything that moves from one place to another must pass through the intervening space before reaching the end: whereas the diffusion of light is instantaneous.
During the intervening years since the South African campaign he had risen by fairly rapid stages to Inspector-General of the Cavalry in India--a situation which he handled with great skill for three years--then Major General, and Lieutenant General.
From their remote position, and the difficult nature of the intervening country, they thought themselves safe; but a band of Iroquois, marching on snow-shoes a distance of twenty days' journey northward from the St. Lawrence, fell upon one of their camps in the winter, and made a general butchery of the inmates.