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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
elapse .
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Examples
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Mugabe has indicated in the past he would step down when his current term elapses in 2008.
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THESE days, not a single school term elapses without teachers downing chalks as a way of expressing anger or pressurising the Government to bow to their demands.
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Perhaps impact should be treated like the history that it is, something that can not be assessed until sufficient time elapses.
History and Impact « Beki's Blog (there's an original name) 2010
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Taking the limit in which the amount of brain activity, and therefore the rate of information processing, tends to zero, as one approaches death, the amount of subjective time which elapses becomes infinite.
Archive 2009-01-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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Do you know how much time elapses between a loss-of-control of Ares I and breakup of the spacecraft and upper stage?
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But if that time elapses and the public isn't convinced, and in fact is so unconvinced that they deliver the opposition two huge victories in a row, then that's it.
What Karl Rove gets right Ezra Klein 2011
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Ali Tarhouni says the anti-government movement will continue to put pressure on the Gadhafi regime despite recent setbacks and as a 72-hour ultimatum elapses Thursday.
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So another minute or so elapses as these shoppers fish for their plastic.
Dave Astor: Bugged by Food Shoppers Who Don't Bag Dave Astor 2011
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To quote from the Mann study, “The more time that elapses between the end of a diet and the follow-up, the more weight is regained.”
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Is Weight-Loss Advice Unethical? 2009
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So another minute or so elapses as these shoppers fish for their plastic.
Dave Astor: Bugged by Food Shoppers Who Don't Bag Dave Astor 2011
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