101.   Breaking his long silence, Swann spoke on a conference call from his home on Thursday.

102.   But there was a long silence.

103.   Former President P.W. Botha broke a long silence to champion police officers seeking amnesty for crimes committed in defense of apartheid, a newspaper reported Sunday.

104.   Fronzoni broke a long silence this week, claiming in a series of interviews that the murderer was still at large and could strike again.

105.   Given the global reach of these horrific crimes, the decision of Pope John Paul II on Thursday to break his long silence in this matter was wise.

106.   He is awkwardly shy in public and prone to long silences.

107.   He broke his long silence in a pre-Easter letter to priests last month, decrying the scandal caused by some.

108.   There was a long silence.

109.   There was this long silence on the other end of the phone.