Aún no tenemos significados para "suffer to elapse".
1Would so long an interval have been suffered to elapse before he was arrested?
2Twenty years had been suffered to elapse, and a great outrage allowed to remain unacknowledged and unrepented.
3A short time was suffered to elapse, before his voice was heard, in the same low but distinct tones as before:
4Yet in this new and more favorable position, several years were suffered to elapse before the course of discovery took the direction of Peru.