Sentence examples for be a decent interval from inspiring English sources

A fortnight, she announces, would be a decent interval.

Five years would also be a decent interval should a player picked, say, once for New Zealand subsequently wish to represent the country of his parents or grandparents.

Nasr concludes on Afghanistan: "We are just washing our hands of it, hoping there will be a decent interval of calm — a reasonable distance between our departure and the catastrophe to follow".

[laughter] Dept. of Self-Inflicted Pain: I resolved that in our next phone chat I'd tell him I would send him my two columns on meeting Laurel, deciding that two weeks would be a decent interval to call him again, but maybe shouldn't wait too long.

"The question is what is a decent interval, and whether there will be two states or three.

She was lucky to rise at a time when there was a decent interval between scandal and the world knowing about it.

All they were looking for was a "decent interval" between a peace treaty ("peace with honor") and what they saw as the inevitable collapse.

After waiting for what one adviser said would be a "decent but short interval" for a concession speech by Vice President Al Gore, Mr. Bush would appear on national television, probably before an audience of supporters, and deliver a speech laden with talk of reunifying the country.

But our hero is not persuaded by the mere stipulation that such a thing could happen, and he is granted a decent interval to get over his resistance to the movie's plot.

It is Mr. Djindjic who implies that he would be willing, after a decent interval and a domestic trial, to see Mr. Milosevic in The Hague, while Mr. Kostunica opposes extradition.

The person in the very middle should also be a decent marcher, and they are also responsible for keeping the interval and being a marker to dress to.