It had taken her an awfully long time to start looking her age, but now at last Merrie Paulsen had been rewarded in her wait for it to happen.
But today, we are alone and as the late afternoon sun turns the dull brown mountains a richer, deeper shade of ochre it is time to head down and start the long drive back to Erbil and the complexities of modern Iraq.
This may be a start, but it will be a long time before patients will truly be able to figure out how much things in health care really cost.
Any civilisation that has built a Dyson sphere will have to have been around for a long time, of course and in the very long run its star will start to change in unpleasant ways, ballooning to form a red giant.
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It's been a long time and this is the start of a new era for me.
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As long as there is poverty and illiteracy, sociologists say it will take a very long time for the villagers to start preferring female babies.
Industry and the economy make up 12% of the New Year Honours list, with Priscilla Newell, Chair of the Royal Mail Pension Trustees, becoming a dame and Sherry Coutu, a long-time supporter of UK start-ups, a CBE for services to entrepreneurship.
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For a start, the order-to-delivery time is very long, up to two months, much longer than customers for true mass-market cars would be prepared to wait.
"I've been in Los Angeles for a long time and I've had to start over before, " Wright says.
Great joy welled up in my heart, and I stayed outside in the damp air for a long time, dreaming of how we could start our life anew someday.
One argument against the idea that a new human-dominated epoch has recently begun is that humans have been changing the planet for a long time already, indeed practically since the start of the Holocene.
At the same time, they design in a buyback option from the start, to secure long-term brand control.
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The SDMI deal means you will see more digital music players on store shelves in time for Christmas, when the music industry hopes to start cashing in, at long last, on the Internet-music boom.
My most successful clients at Stratus Prep are those who start early and take advantage of this time to work closely with their counselor and me long before the MBA deadlines are looming in the fall.
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Unemployment numbers will continue to climb long after the official start of a recession, and typically will take considerable time to correct after the official end of a recession.
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And so what we realized was we had to take some steps to start dealing with these underlying chronic problems that have confronted our economy for a very long time.
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As first-time buyers are squeezed out of the market, it cannot be long before house prices start to wobble.
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Maybe its time for Microsoft to start building hardware and even more tightly integrating its products, though my sense is the time for that is long past.
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Ferguson's half-time talk encouraged United to up their game at the re-start, but not before Maloney curled a long-range shot in at Foster.
As we start seeing the weather get a little bit colder, people can't be without power for long periods of time, without heat for long periods of time.
Maybe, patronising as it may sound, it is time to start telling people to wrap up warmly with hats and gloves, and if you are going on a long journey take a thermos flask.
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