Alea iacta est - "the die has been cast" - and it may be long years before it comes to rest.
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New plants typically take as long as three years before they produce their beans.
As long as 10 years before I had dreamt the name Virgin Galactic Airways.
As we explained, pensions can learn about manager SEC problems years long before they are made public.
In many instances, our laws require immigrant spouses to return to their home countries and remain there for as long as 10 years before reunification is permitted.
This week, medical officials in Louisiana announced it may take as long as six years before the state's hospital and medical systems stabilize after being ravaged by last year's hurricane season.
In 1989, it was a happy start to my career with a bronze medal (this was long before the years when minor medals would have counted as catastrophic).
And we know that if we truly want to have long-term economic growth in this country, then we need to start addressing some of the struggles the middle-class families have been dealing with for years, long before this particular recession hit.
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Years before the statue was built -- years before it would be seen by throngs of immigrants craning their necks skyward at the end of long and brutal voyage, years before it would come to symbolize everything that we cherish -- she imagined what it could mean.
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The retiree had not received any instruction about how to protect company confidential information since long before his retirement, which was two years before the incident.
And it took another ten years--ten long, skittish, sideways years--before the Dow was able to consistently close above 1, 000.
The only policy now is to wait the long, slow months and years before the problem solves itself.
Actually, the dramatic trend to shorter holding periods began 50 years ago, long before flash-trading entered the vocabulary.
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Fossil evidence suggests some populations could have been around tens of thousands of years ago, long before the emergence of agriculture.
He has been marking his sticks and saving pieces of his hockey journey for years, since long before he became a lock for the Hall of Fame.
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Many of the beautiful concertos and sonatas you're playing today were written hundreds of years ago, long before CDs and computers and MP3 players were ever invented.
By many paleochemical calculations, corroborated by historical record, global temperatures were several degrees warmer 1, 000 years ago, 3, 000 years ago and 6, 000 years ago, long before humans began using fossil fuels.
The presence of big high-tech companies such as Motorola, Intel and Honeywell has lured people in recent years, but long before that a policy of limited government and few regulations pulled businessmen into Phoenix.
They show that warming spells very like that of the past 100 years occurred repeatedly, long before the large-scale use of fossil fuels and the associated emissions of carbon dioxide gas were a possible factor.
But this story begins long before his vision of 3 years ago.
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I'll never forget a moment many years ago -- this is long before I ran for President, before I ran for elected office.
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My assets were essentially pledged years ago to Hopkins Med, long before Mr. Gates started telling people what to do with their money.
Bruce MacCloud says that armed police officers forcibly removed him from his three-story home of 25 years in Long Branch in 2002 just days before Thanksgiving.
His quest began long before he founded his own business nine years ago.
It reminds me of Nokia two years after the iPhone launch, not long before their adoption of Windows.
They debunk myths about the significance of the Rochdale "Bigotgate" incident, and even of the first ever TV debates between the party leaders - and concentrate on long-term trends which had been accumulating for years before the election was called.
It's a result of things that have happened long before they ever got to us at five years old or six years old.
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.
Mike Rich, chief executive of the charity Action on Pre-eclampsia, said, while progress had been made in recent years, there was still a long way to go before it was fully understood.
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