By the end of the season, however, over a year has elapsed.

It seemed now that a year at least must elapse before the marriage could take place.

Sometimes less than a year has elapsed between the first and second photos.

For a time, at least, I could still hope that only months and not whole years had elapsed.

As I write these lines a further 38 years have elapsed.

This could happen, he said, if more than two years elapses.

But now a thousand years have elapsed, and the war continues.

No such showing need be made once the full ten years has elapsed.

Less than a year had elapsed, but now all that was gone.

A year has elapsed and it is high time to present the results of that analysis.