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My near lapse had given me a great deal to think about.

How much she had told him in these little lapses.

As the author is not present, Question no 8 lapses.

Even death was not really likely, he thought, for a simple lapse.

After what seemed the lapse of a century it came.

But more than anything, they saw it as a lapse of common sense.

It was certainly the most serious lapse of security I can ever remember.

Remember: what you do most of the time is more important than any lapses.

Even though there were lapses, an effort was being made.

There are two ways to view this sort of lapse.

But the long lapse of time was hard to bridge.

Congress will not want to let them lapse in an election year.

Yet these lapses seem to come as no surprise to you.

Also remember that one lapse does not a fat person make.

That question lapses, however, as the author is not present.

I called him after a lapse of twenty five years.

Plus it was the only way to make up for her lapse.

The first change we noticed came after a lapse of some minutes.

She thought about the lapse of time involved, and nodded.

Maybe it would be better to let the marriage lapse.

A lapse of judgment which I will not make again.

"Was there much of a time lapse between the two?"

The time lapse before its return to normal space was very short.

He pulled himself together quickly, but a lot of people had seen the lapse.

Usually after the third or fourth such lapse they give up on you.

She lapsed into thought, and he too would turn serious.

But the second has lapsed, if that is what you want.

She was told that the order had lapsed three months earlier.

He lapsed into thought and then started taking the money out of her bag.

The name lapsed, but was then used again for the new property, in 1984.

But the option lapsed, and he said the project is dead.

But the company has lapsed back into its losing ways.

The time that lapsed in those events, however, was 116 days.

About a half hour after that, the man lapsed into sleep.

Perhaps because of this, any conversation between them had lapsed.

Following a successful number of years the club lapsed in 1939.

Once they were over, he lapsed during a high stress period at work.

When they left the field, that part of the agency's business usually lapsed.

I gave it up and we lapsed back into silence.

They had not done so since the previous agreement lapsed in 2000.

But this practice appears to have lapsed in more recent years.

From the final decision to surgery only one year lapsed.

Her voice ran down on the single word and she lapsed into silence.

The tournament did not take place in 2010 and has lapsed since then.

However, the film has since lapsed into the public domain.

Maybe she had lapsed into a coma after her run.

The option lapsed recently, but I still see in the book a great television movie.

Because the tax had lapsed in early 1996, that number was zero.

She simply omitted talking about the six years that had lapsed in between.

Nothing was any good now, and he lapsed into a dark vacuum of heat.