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Meanings of slight pause in English

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Usage of slight pause in English
1
Walters, all alone in the crowd, nudged home after a slight pause.
The Guardian
2
There was a slight pause and the light flickered for an distant.
Childhood's End
3
There was a slight pause and the light flickered for an instant.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
4
There was a slight pause at the other end of the wire.
The Young Lions
5
There was a slight pause, and then he said: Yes, I will.
Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Volume 04
6
And she frightens me so sometimes, she continued after a slight pause.
The Tides of Barnegat
7
A slight pause, while the rotten waters slapped the stones beside them.
Rogues
8
When he had quite finished his story, there ensued a slight pause.
The Gray Dawn
9
There was a knock on the door followed by a slight pause.
Transfer of power
10
To this the other responded, after a slight pause, obscurely enough: Oh!
Alias the Lone Wolf
11
In that slight pause in the fight she saw her strategy.
Act of treason
12
There ensued a slight pause; then from overhead the great bell boomed once.
The Gray Dawn
13
There followed a slight pause; then from overhead the church-bell boomed out once.
The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dor...
14
A slight pause ensued before the lawyer went on in his soothing manner:
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
15
There was a slight pause; then Victor's calm voice came back.
Crown of Slaves
16
The slight pause was enough to let me reverse my direction.
Death masks
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Slight pause through the time
Slight pause across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common