There was a silence, followed by an explosion of incredulity.
Street crime, fed by an explosion of drug abuse, has risen exponentially.
Eventually the song is drowned out by an explosion of noise that sounds weirdly triumphant.
But this slowness is followed by an explosion of creativity early in the next century.
Across the inlet stands the Vasilikos power station, destroyed last year by an explosion of munitions carelessly dumped nearby.
At other points, that landscape will be replaced by an explosion of vividly colored fields and birch trees.
It's our sidewalks, not the thoroughfares, that are gridlocked by an explosion of single and twin births in this neighborhood.
As almost anyone who went through the financial crisis will remember, that collapse was preceded by an explosion of dubious mortgages and reckless financial practices.
But the current rivalry, amplified by an explosion of competing ads across Paris, comes after a monthslong race between the two producers to finish their films.
That was followed by an explosion of violence between ethnic Kyrgyz and minority Uzbeks in the south of the country that led to nearly 500 deaths.
The economic upsurge was accompanied by an explosion of new subdivisions around the major urban areas of the state, principally Indianapolis.
