The phrase "a lapse of a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a temporary failure or error in judgment, memory, or concentration.
Example: "There was a lapse of a few seconds before she realized her mistake."
Alternatives: "a moment of" or "an instance of".
After a lapse of a few years, Jackson directed The Feminine Touch (1956) at Ealing Studios.
Abikarram, who is thirty, grew up in the neighborhood and played in the league as a teen-ager; he restarted it last year after a lapse of a decade or so.
"It's important". Joyce E. Peters, executive director of the Office of Bar Counsel, the court arm that investigates whether lawyers are complying with court rules, said that in general a lapse of a year can be explained as a failure to remember or notice, but a lapse of two years is suspect.
Now, after a lapse of a century, an increasing number of psychologists are interested in the psychology and cognitive science of movies (see, for example, Kaufman & Simonton, 2014; Shimamura, 2013; see also Hochberg & Brooks, 1996).
A lapse of even a day or two would be highly disruptive to ongoing investigations, officials said.
First, a lapse of years between a controversial event and a libelous utterance may diminish the defamed party's access to the means of counterargument.
Resistance develops in a population only after a lapse of time measured in several or many generations.
For a lapse of more than a week, Department staff would be needed as excepted employees to monitor the contractors and resolve any issues.
She has merely admitted to having made a "lapse of judgment" in calling "an election official"—without saying whether that official is the one on the tape.
Despite a lapse of half a century, the Kashmiri people still await the redemption of the solemn pledge made to them by India and the United Nations Security Council resolution that calls for holding an impartial plebiscite under the United Nations' auspices.
The ordered, it is said, arose out of the unordered; and the same thing cannot be at the same time both ordered and unordered; there must be a process and a lapse of time separating the two states.
