Sentence examples for a pause of a few from inspiring English sources

There was a pause of a few minutes; his sister's phone had lost its charge.

Finally there was a pause of a few seconds in the shooting as the Blackwater convoy prepared to leave, he said.

After a pause of a few minutes I climb the steep ascent & enter the capitol from the north & wandered in it an hour or two & seeing too many different things of Beauty to Describe or even name them here.

After a pause of a few hours, a second and third wave of bombing resumed in the evening with attacks on Isis lines outside Irbil, the largest city in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, with a population of 1.5 million inflated by thousands of Arab refugees from fighting elsewhere in Iraq.

COACH's "patience" may have played a role in the greater levels of independence seen when the device is used, as participants would sometimes correctly resume the task after a pause of a few seconds; a pause which may be longer than most human caregivers would care to wait.

Then, after a brief pause, a few investors chuckled.

Then, after a pause: "A few beers.

And how do you teach people that it's wrong to do?" Details from the deposition – primarily the fact that Polanski had anal sex with Geimer – gave pause to a few of his supporters, although the reliably absurd Bernard-Henri Lévy whipped up a quick petition in his defence.

Users will be able to pause a game, select a few minutes of recorded video of their most recent activity, and instruct the clip to be uploaded to a social network.

But more than anything, it demonstrates how Ms. Arthur's use of a long pause and a few contemplative blinks can make the driest material seem funny.

In respect of the new novel he says he did pause "for a few seconds" in anticipation of people making comparisons between him and Joyce.