ka noho, ka noho ...
1. after quite a long time - an idiomatic use to indicate a passage of time before something happened.
Ka noho, ka noho ka tīkohi i te mahara (HM 4/1990:1). / After quite a while he collected his thoughts.
Ka noho, ka noho, ehara, ka whai pū a Ngāti Te Whatuiāpiti me Ngāti Kahungunu whānui i te tekau tau atu i 1830 (TTR 1994:150). / After quite a while Ngāti Te Whatuiāpiti and Ngāti Kahungunu acquired arms in the 1830s.
