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Several hours elapsed before they heard any news.elapsed = passed
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Only a few minutes had elapsed when the fire alarm sounded again.
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Average soldiers-disabled, average enemy-disabled, average time-elapsed-before-victory — in every category he was ranked first. (source)
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It was one of those conversations that require some time to elapse between exchanges.† (source)
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Ninety-two hours had already elapsed, and only 1,108 hours remained.† (source)
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Several years elapsed during which they released no new games.† (source)
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How much time had elapsed since he had seen Sirius lying on the Department of Mysteries floor?† (source)
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Mari releases a little sigh and allows a few seconds to elapse.† (source)
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It (the talking, the telling) seemed (to him, to Quentin) to partake of that logic— and reason-flouting quality of a dream which the sleeper knows must have occurred, stillborn and complete, in a second, yet the very quality upon which it must depend to move the dreamer (verisimilitude) to credulity—horror or pleasure or amazement—depends as completely upon a formal recognition of and acceptance of elapsed and yet-elapsing time as music or a printed tale.† (source)
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We have figured out fundamental laws of physics—laws that govern how stars shine and light travels, laws that dictate how time elapses and space expands, laws that allow us to peer back to the briefest moment after the universe began.† (source)
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I wasn't even sure how much time had elapsed since the judge's ruling, as I had never received the order.† (source)
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Hear it, somehow, until whole seconds elapse between beats.† (source)
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Thus I proceeded as my eyes of a man already dead registered the elapsing of that day, which was perhaps the last, and the diffusion of the night.† (source)
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An interval elapses.† (source)
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I know that no more than ten or twelve seconds elapsed, but it seemed much longer, and finally she nodded slightly.† (source)
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Five critical minutes would elapse before the FBI managed to find the car.† (source)
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