There was another longish pause, then my mother's voice: 'In all my life I have never heard anything so outrageous.

Then followed a longish pause, and after it Higgs's voice again.

He left a longish pause before he continued.

There was a longish pause and this time it was Wycliffe who spoke first.

There was a longish pause while I sorted out and digested what she'd said.

During the longish pause Phyllis poured him another cup of coffee.

"Sir, you're doing your best to embarrass me," Cooley said after one more longish pause.

He went behind a glass screen and we heard him talking on the phone after a longish pause.

There was a longish pause before she said again, "Val Con?"

There was a longish pause, then Verney went on.