Sentence examples for been silent for almost from inspiring English sources

It has been silent for almost three years.

Nasa is preparing to contact its Mars rover, Opportunity, again, a spacecraft that has been silent for almost three months.

The bells of York Minster, which have been silent for almost a year since the controversial dismissal of 30 campanologists, will chime again next month with a fresh team of ringers in place.

Inter-marriage between Catholics and Protestants is on the rise but still very much the exception.Last month, Northern Ireland's administration, in which historically Protestant and historically Catholic parties share power, floated a programme for an inter-communal "shared future" whose goals seem pathetically modest for a place where the guns have largely been silent for almost two decades.

The Wichita police acquired a package this week that could be connected to the hunt for a serial killer known as B.T.K., who had been silent for almost 25 years before sending letters to news organizations and the police earlier this year.

The reactivation of the horn, which had been silent for almost four years, was a sweet final touch to those who have spent more than 20 years working to save the classic lighthouse — now a site of tours and black-tie parties for residents of this wealthy enclave — from demolition.

Then she was silent for almost a full minute, her open face suddenly full of unease.

Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage will be silent for almost four hours tonight if the official website line-up is anything to go by, but rumours are circulating that The Libertines have been booked on the sly.

She'd been silent for so long.

He was silent for a moment.

The bus was silent for a moment.