When it took longer than usual, his family panicked.

Answer It took them, on average, three and a half minutes longer.

Well, it took longer than four years. It's been about 16 years.

He took longer and longer rest breaks in the private wing of Government House in Karachi, where only he, Fatima and the servants were allowed.

Now it took years to build up the infrastructure for polio eradication more than 15 years, much longer than it should have but once it was built, the results were striking.

Eastern Europe s transformation after 1989 took a lot longer and was much more costly than originally envisaged.

The upgrade took longer than expected, and in December 2007 a critical shortage of medical isotopes occurred.

And if by grace, then it is no longer of works otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace otherwise work is no longer work.

Given that its negotiation took longer than the Trafficking in Persons Protocol and the Migrants Protocol, it has not yet obtained sufficient ratifications to enter into force.

When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank.

Tom couldn't stand it any longer.

It will survive a little longer.

I cannot bear it any longer.

And suddenly, the music took off. It took flight.

AK We started work on the prototype after the model was approved, and the prototype took a bit longer than we anticipated.

You know, it was longer than the record.

How much longer is it going to take?

And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

Defeated by Prussia in the Battle of Königgrätz, Austria had to leave the German Confederation and subsequently no longer took part in German politics.

It cannot afford to ignore the issue any longer.

It can last for hours, days, weeks, or longer.

Therefore, without waiting any longer, let us do it.

Moreover, the minority of subjects who did consider that it would be right to push the stranger off the footbridge took longer to reach this judgment than those who said that doing so would be wrong.

And it took them four days.

It took them about two hours.

The longer a bubble lasts, the more damage it causes.

It is no longer just one side against the other.

I wrote a longer review but it got accidentally erased.

It may no longer be a daily front page story.

They took him I think it was for his birthday they took him for lunch.

It will make longer lasting products. It will create better, more intuitive customer service.

Yet, however desirable this outcome, it is no longer likely (if it ever was).

So we tried to look at the Stirling engine in a new way, because it was practical weight no longer mattered for our application The internal combustion engine took off because weight mattered because you were moving around.

It is a choice that they cannot put off much longer.

But the longer the delay, the more painful it will be.

Time is no longer on China s side. It must act now.

Had it gotten its way, the eurozone would no longer exist.

It is no longer 1994, and Zuma is no Nelson Mandela.

It is no longer a traumatic experience, just a bureaucratic hassle.

Of course, America is no longer what it used to be.

It took place, once, in 326 B.C.

It s a pity it took so long.

It took place on 12 August 2012.

But I it took me about it took me about, I'd say, six months to finally figure out all the little things.

So doing the screen, we discovered one mutant that took much longer than normal to calm down after the air puffs, and when we examined the gene that was affected in this mutation, it turned out to encode a dopamine receptor.