Sentence examples for halted for a few from inspiring English sources

Then there was the day we were halted for a few minutes by a herd of goats foraging unattended on the highway.

Work on one new dam at Xiluodu on the upper Yangtze, which will rival Itaipu's power capacity, resumed last year after being halted for a few months for an environmental assessment.

When the train halted for a few minutes in Skopje, Macedonia's capital, human-rights activists were roaming the platform with baskets full of water bottles, bananas, apples, vitamin packs, and croissants.

Google said the delivery of some messages had been halted for a few seconds while others were "more severely delayed".

The festival was disrupted and halted for a few years during Lebanon's internecine conflict.

The bout is halted for a few minutes while he recovers.

Trading was halted for a period.

Shares were halted for a while yesterday afternoon.

The relocation can be halted for a short time when a high-priority query comes in.

Manufacturing halts for a few days or simply is relocated.

But after President Vicente Fox threatened to veto a law reaffirming them, union protests brought the centre of Mexico City to a halt for a few days last month.