After a while my voice tailed away, he hadn't said much anyway, we both fell silent.

"We may be able to fool them for a little while - a few hours, say - but will it change the end?"

As somebody says after a while, "This guy's losing it."

But a little while later, they cannot read it, he said, even in their own handwriting.

He paused for a while then said, "Hmm, what sort of water is making this noise?"

Vimes gave her a blank look for a while and then said: 'Fine.

Things grew quiet again, and we ate for a while with nothing said.

I thought about that a while, then said, "What did they think of other aspects of our society?"

The door opened after a while and the woman said: "You can come in."

For a long time he held her, all the while saying nothing.