Certainly that Learjet that has been readied for me might be waiting for a good long time before I set foot within its leathered luxury.

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He reckons interest will surge in the coming two or three years, but that it will be a long time before the region's representation is commensurate with its economic importance.

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The night before, Valdespin hit a long home run and took a long time admiring its trajectory.

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If Brazil scares off the best operators in the business it will be a very long time before Petrobras is able to build out these offshore oil fields on its own.

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At the same time, it must be added that gay culture, since a time long before any of us were born, had been, even for its foremost creators and champions, a concept fraught with ambiguity and paradox.

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Before its 2003 retirement, the Concorde was long the shuttle of choice for executives eager to spend as little time as possible en route to Europe and unafraid to shell out thousands for a 3.5-hour trans-Atlantic flight.

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