I am therefore a poor critic: a paper or book, when first read, generally excites my admiration, and it is only after considerable reflection that I perceive the weak points.

After considerable reflection, Garrett offers to support Pepita if she will give up prostitution.

"I've just had a thought which requires considerable reflection," Alia said.

But then the doubts began to gnaw, and after some considerable reflection, he decided to build on those rather pedestrian lies.

One can almost bring it to life in the imagination and even in its present state of decay it provides considerable reflection.

"He is a priest," Thai Dei confessed, after considerable reflection.

I have given this issue a great deal of thought, prayer and considerable reflection, and I have found widespread disagreement.

Determined upon a last feat of personal empire, and after considerable reflection - his excesses are coupled with some shrewd insight - Sir Jack buys the Isle of Wight.

Some, after considerable reflection, really do not know; and some believe this is a proposal that will create an entrenched bulwark against a superstate, and so are in favour.

It is not an easy subject and some of us feel that to bring this forward in the last few months of the Parliament when it needed considerable reflection and study was a little premature.