Approval cannot be given after the six-month period has elapsed.

He looked about, feeling as though an enormous period had elapsed but knowing it to have been a few minutes only.

Then a period of time must have elapsed between the meeting and when you wrote down your impressions.

However, Caldwell failed to return to the club after this period had elapsed and he was suspended for the rest of the season.

This is particularly true when a considerable period of time has elapsed.

Unless perhaps a certain period has already elapsed since that episode, if indeed it occurred.

These both end when a short period of time without further rapid consumption elapses.

It stipulated that a period of ten years must elapse between one man's holding the same office twice.

But in practice a certain period of time may elapse before the authorities are able to recognize that a problem exists.

A much longer period elapsed before physics entered on the highway of science.