1.   A long pause, then the pointer went to fifty.

2.   After a long pause, she nodded and the story emerged of a stillbirth she had experienced in her early twenties.

3.   Apparently they did, for there was a long pause before the door hissed open.

4.   There was a long pause as we all tried to hold back the giggles.

5.   There was a long pause before anyone spoke.

6.   There was a long pause while he picked his teeth and looked down into the seat of his chair.

7.   There was a long pause, and she was about to put the phone down when the voice came back again.

8.   There was a long pause, then, before it observed that some-thing was falling down toward it from the orbiting ship.