He felt more aware than usual of everything going on around him, but the elapsing of seconds and minutes seemed not to count.

If it is rather incidental to the composition, it is important symbolically, if it refers to the slow elapsing of time.

Phillips had had the living of the house ever since his grandfather's disappearance, but the lamp had been in the keeping of the old man's lawyer until the elapsing of the required seven years for the presumption of death.

Several weeks elapsed before I saw the least change in her.

At the start of act 2, several months have elapsed.

In any case, 45 years elapsed before they had children.

A very long time has elapsed since your last report.

How long a period had elapsed between then and now?

The whole time elapsed was probably less than ten minutes.

Only a few minutes elapsed until the door opened again.

Now two weeks had elapsed and all I got was his machine.

Many years were to elapse before I saw it again.

However some time elapsed before they paid attention to it.

Almost an hour had elapsed, and now everyone was concerned.

By the end of the season, however, over a year has elapsed.

After the time has elapsed, no other questions can be read in that half.

I have absolutely no idea how much time has already elapsed.

Less than a year had elapsed, but now all that was gone.

Less than five minutes elapsed before the door of the room opened.

Days, weeks, months elapsed, and nothing more was heard of the page.

But until the 48 hours elapse, many things can still happen that will change the situation.

But four days at least must elapse before they could hope to leave it.

For a time, at least, I could still hope that only months and not whole years had elapsed.

From experience, I think you'll find that about four days have elapsed in the city while we've been gone.

The six hours that were to elapse before the first stop seemed as many days.

A space of a minute or two has elapsed before he comes up with her.

It does this a few more times, until about 45 minutes have elapsed.

This could happen, he said, if more than two years elapses.