hiatus

Converse of object

• avoid: In the mean time, alternative routes will need to be put in place by the HPC in order to avoid a hiatus.
• cause: The sudden departure of Pat Baker at the end of October has caused a slight hiatus in the work of Hewlett-Packard.
• follow: The renewal of the practice follows a 200-year hiatus.
• take: The Nutlog will be taking a hiatus for about three weeks in August.
• have: Tarantino is lucky, he had a six-year hiatus to hide the fact that he steals from any random film he likes.
• create: Their abstraction creates a hiatus in space-time, a sense of unboundedness.

Adjective modifier

• sacral: The first step is to identify the sacral hiatus.
• indefinite: In 2005, its members announced that the band was on " indefinite hiatus.
• five-year: After a five-year recording hiatus Omar the UK soul man is back!
• two-year: There has been nearly a two-year hiatus for the Beat Up?
• lengthy: After a lengthy hiatus, Conscious Pilot have released a few more tracks and have a string of shows planned for 2006.
• three-year: The first when I pulled Salt & Honey out of the bottom drawer after a three-year hiatus and found myself enjoying the story.

Modifies a noun

• hernia: This is the most common type of hiatus hernia.
• period: I did Ring 2 - which initially was a small part in a hiatus period.

Noun used with modifier

• summer: By all accounts, Reed treated the six young actors as his own children, even taking them on trips during the summer hiatus.
• month: Tour bus took page catalog cruising considered the rarest month hiatus.
• year: After a three year hiatus, Simple Minds are back with a new CD.
• recording: After a five-year recording hiatus Omar the UK soul man is back!

Preposition: in

• activity: The First World War produced a hiatus in the activities of the IPA.

Preposition: of

• year: After a hiatus of fifty years, France had finally allowed the US to build a small, largely symbolic, NATO base.