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elapse

(i-laps′) [L. elapsus, slipped by]

Of time, to pass.

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The time that elapses between the filing of a patent application for a new medicinal product and permission to market the said product generally reduces the actual protection the patent provides to a period that is not enough to recoup the investment in research.

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Suspense builds effectively as time elapses with characters becoming infected and the threat of death so imminent.

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We should make an enormous effort to create, weave and prepare space, not only to withhold time, but to make it perceptible and feel it as it elapses. A human being has only his life ...

Service and light in Jyvaskyla: as Rogelio Salmona received the Alvar Aalto Award, speakers at the Jyvaskyla symposium pondered on the morality and politics of light and space

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