after a while

Bev was such an intense person that the character really kind of wore me out after a while.

After a while, I stood up, pulled out my phone, and snapped dozens of pictures of his grave.

After a while, they went to a fertility clinic for tests.

But after a while, meaning after the advent of Trump, their humorless, groping sincerity, which I indulged because of course they “meant well,” curdled into flat-out fascist goose-stepping.

After a while we roll up to a children’s fairground.