Only the VAX succeeded--and then DEC stuck with it too long, lingering in minicomputers after the market had turned to workstations.
"I don't want to stay out of it too long, I want to get back into it straight away, " he said.
Most importantly, Nokia is avoiding the cardinal mistake made by many phone makers: leaving it too long between launching a phone and getting it into the shops.
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In fact, many liars, especial the most brazen, may actually overcompensate (to prove that they are not lying) by making too much eye contact and holding it too long.
When he played a trial version submitted by the inventor, Charles Darrow, he thought it was too complicated, too technical and it took too long to play.
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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.
"He thinks it was too long in coming, but obviously believes it was the right thing to do, " the White House spokesman told reporters.
It is too long, and there are places in which it is ambiguous.
It waited too long to adapt to a changing market, and it left its customers (and potential customers) waiting as it tried to catch up in recent years.
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His friend James Madison cautioned it was too long (73 manuscript pages) and hyperbolic.
Enbridge has taken significant heat over the notion that it waited too long to report the incident.
Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long.
Or the adviser may say that it is too long ago to be able to deal with your complaint.
"Yeah, I think it's time to let everything go and it was probably too long in getting it here, " he said.
It was too long and was painfully redundant by minute eight.
If it takes too long, the cash burn could end up putting the company in the hands of its lenders, and erasing any equity value.
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.
The second-most-common factor was greed, in that they had a winning position, but stuck with it for too long and in some cases, they ended up with no profit at all.
Many also felt it took too long for films to download via the internet, but the growth in use of broadband - which offers faster internet connections - is changing that.
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Founder Ali Stunt said that 80% of patients in Britain are not eligible for surgery at diagnosis because GPs do not recognise the symptoms, and it takes too long for patients to have a scan.
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The danger with this form of stimulus is twofold: First, it takes too long for the government spending to kick in, and second, spending may easily focus on pork-barrel projects that have little inherent value.
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When I was talking to non-musician friends and they said it takes too long to get to the part of Handel's "Messiah" where everyone stands up, I realized that "Messiah" was in dire need of an update.
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 we'd have to train all those people and it would take too long, and you'd be frustrated -- why is it that this big government agency can't seem to run anything?
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"It's a little worrying doing so well at the World Championships because it's too long a chunk of time to hold your peak form, but it's not enough time to come down and re-train, " he explained.
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It either waited much too long to toughen up on the inspections or it's doing them unnecessarily, costing airlines millions in lost revenue.
My clever son saw the video and commented that it went on too long.
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It was not too long ago that consumers nationwide had a wide variety of firms to choose from.
It takes him too long to understand which are the critical levers to pull, and to pull them.
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