Sentence examples for then mercifully from inspiring English sources

Then, mercifully, it fell apart.

By then, mercifully, it is almost game time.

(We will then mercifully get off the world's nerves).

8. STUART BROAD - A miserable wicketless tour for England's vice-captain, interrupted by injury and illness and then mercifully ended early by a recurrence of the former.

(Lucas himself had briefly entertained, then mercifully set aside, the notion that his archaeologist might also be a practitioner of kung fu).

Having lowered myself to the limit of degradation (thank God, no member of my family was there), then mercifully dropped into an oubliette — in mind, if not in body — I began to "space" my meetings with the Mercer Island crowd.

There was then a mercifully quiet fieldside track, where we could regroup and catch our breath before plunging into the woods.

There has been a remarkable transformation in the way that racism is treated within the game since then, and mercifully those scenes of almost 25 years ago are long gone in England, though not everywhere.

Whatever the Steveware thought it was doing, ­Lincoln hoped it would believe it was working perfectly, all the way from Steve's small-town childhood to whatever age it needed to reach before it could write this creation into flesh and blood, congratulate itself on a job well done, and then finally, mercifully, dissolve into rat piss and let the world move on.

And then, eventually, mercifully, it changed back.

Their voices glide and caress the material airily, if not quite with total youthful élan then still mercifully without any of the raggedness that can challenge older vocal harmony groups.