Seawolves coach Matt Senk knew it would be a long shot for his team to duplicate the magic that carried it to the College World Series for the first time.
If that happens it would be great but as long as we win medals it would be even better.
"It would be a long way from being used in clinical trials, " he said.
In recent months, the administration had just said it would be a long, hard slog.
While this rosy scenario is possible, we believe it would be a long shot.
All this meant two things were inevitable: that it would be a long while before my first kiss, and that I would one day become an engineer.
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Try out one of the longest marble runs in Britain -- laid out straight it would be 60m long -- and marvel at a two tonne giant marble floating on water.
"It became clear that the time necessary to repair it would be too long a period to deny our customers a direct link to lower Manhattan, " Mr. Prendergast said.
Giving his reaction to the new government's programme, former Labour minister Hillary Benn predicted it would not be long before fundamental policy disagreements emerged between the Conservatives and Lib Dems.
JPMorgan Chase (nyse: JPM - news - people ) isn't in as strong a condition as most believe, and it would be a long shot for US Bancorp.
The aerobatics team usually flies from RAF Scampton near Lincoln, but Squadron Leader Mike Ling said he hoped it would not be long before it could return from RAF Valley back to Lincolnshire.
One might have guessed that it would be a long time before anybody was foolish enough again to tie up a big chunk of his retirement savings in the same enterprise that issues his paycheck.
It would be a long, long recovery.
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"It would be a long and very complicated process because of the extraordinary significance of this landmark, " said Vin Cipolla, president of the Municipal Art Society of New York, a nonprofit advocate for historic preservation and urban planning.
Assuming that the figure was similar during the Cretaceous, it would be a long shot that the first fossil meteorite to turn up from 65m years ago was made of such a rock unless a huge extra supply of carbonaceous chondrite had suddenly arrived on the planet.
It would be serious: the articles would be long, the layout severe and the trade-mark illustration was to be a spidery caricature by David Levine.
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They had no idea how hard it would be, or how long it would take.
Mr Al-Fawwaz claims he was told it would be okay so long as the two did not discuss any criminal conduct.
It would be best for long-term investors and the drug industry if Bristol (nyse: BMY - news - people ) doesn't sell out.
Even if a supposedly long-term arrangement were to be agreed upon, it would be unlikely to last long since so many of the other checks and balances are likely to change.
But I have a strong feeling that it would be less painful in the long run to do it.
But he urged caution, warning it would and should be a long process.
If you straightened out all the tubing on a French horn, for example, it would be about seventeen feet long.
This was because the 10-15 years it would take to build a replacement would be too long to wait to save the jobs and the facility, which is regarded as crucial to the local economy.
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And how long it would be before the series lost its creative drive.
Vickery admitted it would be strange not to have long-time team-mate Wilkinson filling the fly-half role, but was full of praise for Cipriani.
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