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

This will take a lot of time.

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

Peace will take a long time.

Tom waited a long time for Mary, but she never showed up.

It took us so long to get to where we are.

Making such a declaration could be time consuming.

Standards implementation must not slow down and will have to continue for a long time yet.

Capacity building and restoration of civil society takes time.

Excellent ideas for progress exist but their implementation awaits more frustratingly distant days.

These jobs are strenuous, labour intensive and time consuming.

We should not forget that the reintegration process takes time and requires long term support.

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.

When you have 21 minutes to speak, two million years seems like a really long time.

The Commission concluded that ad hoc measures would likely prove to be unduly time consuming and expensive.

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

We will be able to finish our work tomorrow if speakers do not take too long in making their statements.

The summit outcome is a clear mandate for change, addressing the challenges that the world has long faced.

(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).

It was suggested that developing such an instrument might take a considerable amount of time and that it was preferable to begin the process earlier rather than later.

Another time consuming component, careful validation assures the accountability of the assessment process itself.

We have long discussed in the Security Council, as well as in the General Assembly the framework for cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations.

Now, imagine what that could be. I have to say honestly this is not something yet the building can do because it takes too long.

Ibn Hawqal was clearly more than an editor he was a traveler who spent much of his time writing about the areas and things he had seen.

They transition in and out of it, and good teachers spend a lot of time thinking about how to move kids through these experiences.

This long running pernicious conflict cannot quickly or easily be dispatched to history.

I've been spending a lot of time thinking about coffeehouses for the last five years, because I've been kind of on this quest to investigate this question of where good ideas come from.

She passes that virus on to baby, and it takes a really, really, really long time as the redwood trees for that serious meme to get out of our operating system.

The procedure for indirect access should not be so burdensome and time consuming as to act as an impediment to access to bank information.

And the great innovation of Chicken McNuggets was not nuggetfying them, because that's kind of an easy concept, but the trick behind Chicken McNuggets was, they were able to remove the chicken from the bone in a cost effective manner, which is why it took so long for other people to copy them.

It has no legitimacy, and it is bound to fall. But that could take a long time and come at an alarming cost.

These solutions can be of great help to older female employees who are called upon to provide time consuming, long term family care.

However, the actual extradition will take longer if the suspect contests it, as at least one court hearing would be required.

I worked a long time on figuring out how to move the arms over a much greater arc that is up and down and make them a lot easier, so that you didn't have to use a button.

He might depart earlier if it takes too long to wait for a full car and or when he expects to pick up more passengers along the route.

He also noted that after many years of widespread economic mismanagement it would take time for the Democratic Republic of the Congo to make significant progress.

It was noted, however, that such links and support sometimes required a long time to be established and that resources generally tended to be less than adequate.

In addition, millions of people are suffering unimaginable physical and psychological trauma that will take a long time to heal.

Such commitments are normally restricted to administrative requirements of a continuing nature and to other contracts or legal obligations where long lead times are required for delivery.

This took a long time I had to get Homer down and put him through the fMRI and the SPECT and multiple EEGs, but as a couch potato, his brain has shrunk.

Recognition of Israel Truman had long taken an interest in the history of the Middle East, and had read many books on ancient history and the events related in the Bible.

Other organizations realize that little will happen until the project is staffed, which can take a long time after approval if developers are tied up on existing projects.

Bringing diamond mining under effective control will therefore be a long term effort that requires active community involvement and international support long after the exit of UNAMSIL.

He wished to remind her that the negotiations on the resolution establishing the Department had been long and arduous and that the contribution made by Member States deserved respect.

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.