Unfortunately for the modern patron, such an opportunity has long since passed away.

Another opportunity passed when they went to lunch in a group after Sunday services.

It's a management position and I really don't want to let this opportunity pass me by.

As an actor, I felt like an opportunity passed me by.

By the time the skepticism is gone, often the opportunity has passed.

It is a fear that opportunity will pass this way but once.

And by the middle of November the opportunity had passed.

So we stay with what is safe and opportunities pass us by.

Under no circumstances must we Europeans let this opportunity pass us by!

There have been positive signs, but unfortunately the opportunity passed all too quickly.