Repeating Patterns

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I have a basic question here.  I just want to make sure I’m not missing anything more efficient, so I don’t eat into my 175 patterns for each track.  Sorry if this is clear in the manual and I’ve missed it!  If I want to repeat a pattern X times, then have silence for Y measures (while another part plays), do I just make X copies of said pattern and then insert Y copies of a blank pattern, which is what I’m doing, or is there another way (e.g. like follow actions in Ableton)?