Sentence examples for a while to discern from inspiring English sources

It took me a while to discern the real problem: Time is Money was too direct, too aggressive, too in your face; it would frighten the girls away.

The second attempt was more successful, but it took me a while to discern what the girls were actually shouting through their thick accents (I eventually figured out it was "Pope no more" after listening to them for a good five minutes). .

Therefore, practice, practice, practice, and be patient - it may take a while to be able to discern between good surrealism and meaningless imagery and phrases.

Many mainly just "googled around" for a while and tried to discern what information was valid and to the point.

While the failure to discern an overall effect of depression (independent of chronicity) on telomere length may be due to the lesser chronicity of our sample compared to others [55], it is also possible that our small sample size lacked the statistical power to detect the effect.

Investors trying to achieve a long-term return goal will need to embrace both active and passive strategies, while developing tools to discern the capital market efficiency differences along the way.

Inspired by Zhou Dunyi's doctrine of the interpenetration of stillness and activity and related ideas, Zhu Xi worked out a twofold cultivation effort that incorporated at once nurturing one's feeling of reverence (jing) to purify mind while investigating things to discern their determinate or defining patterns (li).

And while the struggle to discern truth from fiction has been happening, in various iterations, for centuries, differentiating between the two has become harder and harder with the advent of the internet.

While the ability to discern viable, infectious oocysts from nonviable oocysts would be useful to assess the efficacy of water treatment methodologies, the RPAC assay was developed with clinical use in mind where the presence of any oocysts is of concern.

One was even able to describe the possible gun -- an AK-74 -- while others were able to discern a few of the numbers and letters from the tag of a suspicious van.

For while it is possible to discern the objective "purpose" of a statute (i.e., the public good at which its provisions appear to be directed), or even the formal motivation for a statute where that is explicitly set forth (as it was, to no avail, here), discerning the subjective motivation of those enacting the statute is, to be honest, almost always an impossible task.