Howard said that he hoped to return within a very few weeks, when the dangerous stage of the war had passed.

The manic stage had passed and she was even regaining a fondness for Duncan.

A moment later the stage passed them.

No stage had passed through in the last week.

It marked another stage passed, a new tempo introduced.

He felt less tired, the stage of utter exhaustion had passed.

Barth argued that a particular stage in history was passing, and pointed to possible directions from there.

Each stage passed increases game's difficulty (quantity and speed of enemy tanks).

That stage passed and suddenly he began running.

Many civilizations and stages of the evolution of life passed before him.