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

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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.

She is much taller than I.

She's way taller than me.

Some trials may require longer time, others less.

Otherwise, court procedures may take a long time to resolve a case, and in this example it has taken quite a lengthy period.

As such, training in the UK and Ireland is considerably longer than in the US or Canada and frequently takes around 8 9 years following graduation from medical school.

The latter two objectives are likely to take even longer to achieve.

As we move out, the light from these distant galaxies have taken so long, we're essentially backing up into the past.

This rule shall not apply if the recourse procedures are excessively prolonged.

It wasn't until much longer, much later, that Darwin actually spoke and wrote about humans.

Increased levels of INR means blood is taking more time than usual to clot.

Would you make more time for those people? Would you prioritize?

At that rate, it will take an unreasonable amount of time to clear the backlog.

They love Namibia for its beautiful dunes, that are even taller than the Empire State Building.

Many basic international crimes have already found expression in existing and generally accepted treaty law, and the effective implementation through, inter alia, the establishment of an international criminal court should not await the finalization of the draft Code, a project that may take considerably more time than drafting a statute for a court.

(ii) It would take a great deal of time to incorporate the amendment and even longer for countries to ratify or accede to it (there are currently 134 parties to the New York Convention).

Indeed, the longer it takes to put a strategic communications framework into place, the more the vacuum will be filled by the enemy.

And the longer America s politicians take to resolve the debt ceiling issue, the greater the risk of an inadvertent accident.

A superinsulated house takes longer to cool in the event of an extended power failure during cold weather, for example after a severe ice storm disrupts electric transmission because heat loss is much less than normal buildings, but the thermal storage capacity of the structural materials and contents is the same.

Regional centres for development offer a free of charge counselling service to companies that are just starting up as well as companies that have already been in business for a longer time.

The general rule is that if the acquired property's useful life is longer than the taxable year, then the cost must be capitalized.

I could speak at greater length and deliver that message less precisely, but, in the interests of getting out of here, let me just stop at that point.

He also stated that Howard is in Atlanta finishing vocals, and that it shouldn't be too much longer now.

We are distributing to delegations the full text of our remarks, which is significantly longer than the text that I will deliver in the interests of brevity.

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

After 1918, British Pathé started producing a series of cinemazines, in which the newsreels were much longer and more comprehensive.

As several institutions are involved, and given some differences in their structures, coordination of the initiatives is taking longer than expected.

Part time employment could be used to improve or add to professional qualifications while at the same time spending more time with the family.

The longer this takes, the greater the incentives at the national level to capture a share of global demand via protectionist measures.

In addition, most resources were allocated to critical situations of mass migratory flows, while other situations, which were just as serious but received less publicity and lasted longer, were not allocated the resources they needed.

However, it is taking them longer to begin face to face talks and UNMIS is consulting with the two parties to help expedite the process.

This was the first time that support to national reports was availed through a multilateral project, and the finalization of the related arrangements consumed more time than expected.

But, it's much more than that.

Violent crimes attract much longer custodial terms, increasing the number of women in prison at any one time.

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.

Do you rip it off quickly short duration but high intensity or do you take your Band Aid off slowly you take a long time, but each second is not as painful which one of those is the right approach?

They finally see you. It takes more time to get your electrocardiogram on your skin and diagnose it, and it's hard to do because they don't have the baseline data, which the computer we put in you gets.

Women's longer lifespan? The fact that women tend to be much less violent than men? But, no, it wasn't any of these gifts.

While state media reported it will take about two months for the reactor to begin generating electricity, Russia's nuclear agency says it will take longer.

Repairs took often a long time, and the State Aircraft Factory was burdened with restoration repair of Soviet war booty planes, foreign aircraft with many hours of flight time, and the development of indigenous Finnish fighter types.

Making such a declaration could be time consuming.

Alienated from the most populous part of the country, from the cities, and from a younger generation of Libyans, Idris spent more and more time at his palace in Tobruk, near the British military base.

However, this is far below the foreseen requirement.