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elapse verb intranzitiv
(despre vreme) a trece, a se scurge, a zbura;
years have elapsed since then s-au scurs ani de atunci.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
A few minutes elapsed, as you remember, before the sleepy commissionnaire drew your attention to the bell, and those were just enough to give the thief time to make his escape.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Some time elapsed before I learned the history of my friends.
(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
A considerable interval elapsed before it again rose.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
The anxiety I underwent, in the interval which necessarily elapsed before a reply could be received to her letter to Mr. Murdstone, was extreme; but I made an endeavour to suppress it, and to be as agreeable as I could in a quiet way, both to my aunt and Mr. Dick.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
It was some time before she could find what she looked for; and other family matters occurring to detain her, a quarter of an hour had elapsed ere she returned downstairs with the volume from which so much was hoped.
(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)
His vacation had consumed nearly all he had earned in the laundry, and he was so far from his market that weeks must elapse before he could hope for the first returns from his hack-work.
(Martin Eden, de Jack London)
More than ten days elapsed before I had again any conversation with her.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
Some time elapsed before, with all my efforts, I could comprehend my scholars and their nature.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
A very long time elapsed.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
I recalled the time when I had travelled that very road in a coach; I remembered descending that hill at twilight; an age seemed to have elapsed since the day which brought me first to Lowood, and I had never quitted it since.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)