1.   A long silence fell between us.

2.   Click, pause, click, a long silence.

3.   Eventually the ground seemed to stabilize and there was a long silence during which the mist curled slowly upwards.

4.   The long silence that followed would become a familiar feature of night raids filled with uncertainty and pregnant with disaster.

5.   The shuffling stopped, followed by a long silence.

6.   There is a long silence, broken only by a man belching and a topless, middle-aged woman giggling.

7.   There was a long silence - what I think might be called a pregnant pause.