1.   Then the slight pause, the half-second of calm and false progress.

2.   There was a slight pause.

3.   A slight pause.

4.   After a slight pause, Mason quickly walked off the court, showing no emotion.

5.   Death, says Donne, is a slight pause, between life and life everlasting.

6.   He said there was a slight pause before the shark turned on him.

7.   There was a slight pause for two weeks after the mid-April high-tech stock sell-off, but he said business has rebounded.

8.   There was a slight pause, then I could hear him smile.