Sentence examples for a long time passes from inspiring English sources

A long time passes in silence.

She stares right at him and he stares right back, and a long time passes before he realises that she is looking at her own reflection.

While his wife helps the hostess arrange fresh berries on a platter, he jumps — but a long time passes before the police knock on the door to ask if a guest is missing.

A long time passes without any contact and then one day she gets in touch and tells him she's found a job with a foreign company and wants to take him out to dinner.

A long time passed.

A long time passed, but she did not come back.

A long time passed, but he never returned.

A long time passed, however, before any concerted action was taken.

Then a long time passed at the peephole, and Arty didn't come out for his pizza.

And then a long time passed — whole scenes of "Downton Abbey" strolled elegantly by — before my younger cat said quietly, to himself, "Sometimes I am a trouper".

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