Melanoma, because of its tendency to spread if left too long, may require extra treatment such as chemotherapy.
Expats in Laos say that sometimes, if you stay too long, you can never go back home.
Yes, some have been, having learned tighter inventory controls increased chances that if they wait too long, products might not be there.
Councils in England could lose their powers over adoption services if they take too long to find adoptive parents, ministers have announced.
Disney believes it can change the world through tourism, but if that takes too long, it is willing to take a more direct route.
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If it waits too long to transform its words into action, its members may lose sight of their shared dream: a peaceful, free-trade community spanning the Pacific.
Some variation is normal, but if it gets too long it can upset the timing of heartbeat with potentially dire consequences - dizziness, faints and, rarely, sudden death.
"We get feedback pretty quickly if we go too long, but at the same time we want to show enough so people know what's coming, " says Randall Hester of Cinemark.
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If the Fed delays too long, it will be forced to hike interest rates much more to fight that insidious inflation.
These leads will have to be sufficiently short to transmit very high frequency signals, which tend to radiate away as microwaves if the lead is too long (by 2015, chips will work high in the gigahertz band).
Experience shows that Congress will keep troubled programs going indefinitely if they are attached to lots of votes in key states, but if a program takes too long to find a constituency, then it becomes an endangered orphan on Capitol Hill.
If you stay unemployed too long hoping to match that former salary that is now further and further into your past, you put yourself in a precarious situation that may force you to take far worse than a 50% pay cut.
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Being in denial can lead start-ups over the cliff because if a CEO waits too long to take action, the start-up is likely to run out of money and decide to change strategy only after it is too late to salvage the venture.
If a meeting drags on too long, the manager has useful hard data at his or her fingertips.
If 2018 is a little too long for you to wait until your next space-launch fix, then fear not.
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But if they hold back for too long, the markets will strike first.
Certainly, if your long position is too large to let you sleep at night, reducing it when prices are rising is a good idea.
But if capital remains scarce for too long, and big companies struggle to refinance their foreign debt, investors' gut reaction could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
If debate drags on for too long, Iceland's credit rating, already close to junk, could be downgraded again and that would threaten the chances of a recovery.
If it delays action for too long, it runs the even-greater risk of being left behind by competitors that have succeeded in making the technology work to their advantage.
And if credit grows too quickly for too long the system tends to explode, as America and some other Western countries have found.
Surgeons ended up padding the time of their operating room slots so they didn't wind up behind if a compound fracture repair went too long.
But it seems that Sir Richard and Mr Turner will probably keep their jobs for now, if only because it would take too long to find qualified replacements.
Not for too long perhaps, if Russia's president, Boris Yeltsin, follows the advice of those of his courtiers most desperate to hang on to power, by declaring himself president of a new and enlarged state, with Mr Lukashenka as his deputy.
And if you've been sitting for too long, the built-in software will remind you to get up to take a break.
But I can't gloat for too long, because, if the truth be known, my good friend George Gilder has waxed my tail.
"If fiscal policy is too tight for too long, you can actually end up increasing the structural deficit in the long-run, " he warns.
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But if harmful levels of stress continue for too long, a person may lose the ability to relax, a condition linked in research to numerous health problems.
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