When the girl leaves school she is hardly old enough to enter service, and too often in the year or so that elapses before she 'goes out' much mischief is done.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
The termination of the literary career of Accius must have been soon after the beginning of the first century B.C., so that nearly half a century elapses between the last of the works of the older poets and the appearance of the great poem of Lucretius.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
Is it natural that a merry feast should grow more austere as time elapses?
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick