after a while
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Everybody was quiet, and after a while Natalie noticed the rocking of the boat seemed to steady out.
From Literature
“It’s not really his fault,” Owen said after a while.
From Literature
After a while, I watched Aunt Kitty cross the marble floor toward me.
From Literature
“The songs just started coming in my head and after a while I decided to try it,” he said in an interview published by American Songwriter at the end of 1997.
From Los Angeles Times
“In the 1960s and 1970s in Europe, everyone was a revolutionary, it was a natural state of affairs among the young people. And then, after a while, the great revolutionary illusions were gone,” said Olivier Roy, professor at the European University Institute in Florence and a leading scholar of political Islam.
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