After hesitating, I nodded yes.

There was no time to think.

Tom didn't give me time to think.

Tom sat at his desk, deep in thought.

It took some effort.

After an initial rally, Brazilian interest rates have settled at levels incompatible with long term solvency. Its benchmark C bonds now yield around 22 in dollar terms.

After an initial rally, Brazilian interest rates have settled at levels incompatible with long term solvency.

But only up to a point.

The peaceful vote in Montenegro last weekend may presage conflict and difficult decisions about independence, but chances are strong that the parties will settle these matters by talking rather than fighting.

After some procrastination and an initial failed attempt, Milosevic has been arrested, without bloodshed, though not without danger.

There are several listed demands

Such talks, to put it mildly, could take time.

We expected some drop in sales, he says.

The old cottage has a certain charm about it.

Today s brutal stalemate is likely to continue for some time.

We sat together in silence for some time.

Ultra low interest rates may persist for some time.

The predominance of the right in the future European Parliament calls for some explanation.

After a time, they are removed, and a new set of representatives is dispatched.

I spent some moments studying the cab.

In short, now is not the time to pursue a policy of benign neglect.

The Greek people deserve some real choices in the near future.

Consensus on most of the draft has existed for some time.

The conventional view is that a reasonable, balanced approach entails some of each.

For a period of time, users were unable to receive or send messages.

With a massive protest at the national level, the student movement demanding free, quality education returned to the streets of Chile in full force.

Some people call for the cyber equivalent of formal arms control treaties.

For some time, scientists have believed that individual human beings were 99.9 genetically identical.

There is no formula, but, befitting the seriousness of the challenge and Bhutan s deep tradition of Buddhist reflection, there is an active and important process of national deliberation.

As already in Zenica, the Portuguese would plan to exert maximal pressure on the Bosnians from the start, to give them no time to think.

So Sarkozy deserves at least two and a half cheers for trying to revitalize it.

The PBC may have to continue its sterilization for some time in the foreseeable future.

The fire caused a large cloud of fumes that could be seen clearly from some distance.

And then, for a time, I couldn t believe it either.

In cases of emergency, precious time is wasted over deciding whether to spend on a private vehicle or not and the loss of time leads to deaths.

Turkey, on the other hand, after some initial hesitation, has thrown its weight fully behind Assad s opponents, including by providing refuge to them, as well as to defectors from Syria s army.

There is no movement of the soil yet, and there will not be for some time.

Even if America succeeds in dividing the developing countries, however, it may inspire a degree of unity elsewhere.

There was no power, no transport, no organised life of any kind for a period.

Mathematical induction is a method of mathematical proof typically used to establish a given statement for all natural numbers.

For some time his fate was uncertain, and in the meanwhile Henry, his brother, assumed the regency.

As a result, Western objectives have shifted in the direction of some kind of protectorate for Kosovo, quite independent of Milosevic.

(b) The assessment of the Special Representative that some improvements have taken place, inter alia, in such areas as women's education

For everyone else, a kind of state of emergency was proclaimed that has allowed state interference in essential civil rights.

Nevertheless, de Gaulle s insights left a legacy that still causes some mistrust and dissent within NATO.