In some cases, voters had to take long walks to get to polls.
But one police crew member, speaking anonymously to BBC News, said lives would be "put at risk or possibly lost" because it would take too long to get to incidents.
To review: lorcaserin is still a potentially approvable drug, but it could take a long time to get to market and approval is by no means a sure thing.
It shouldn't take long to get a sample, which will be sent to Michigan State University for analysis, CNN affiliate WXYZ reported.
Shell says it's too early to tell how long it will take to get Mars back online, but a year is likely.
Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake.
Many publishers, for example, still take far too long to get books to market in print or electronic form, missing valuable opportunities.
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It didn't take long for Newcastle to get themselves further ahead at the re-start with Flood launching a kick over the top towards the corner.
Their town is in ruins, hundreds of business have been destroyed or damaged and it will take a long time to get over the huge loss of life.
But it did not take long for Catalans to get into their stride, Murphy scoring two tries in 10 minutes to put the home side firmly in control.
Sounds like it might take that long to get there.
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Ivory Coast international Drogba had been spotted with a hot-water bottle as he watched from the dugout during the opening half but it did not take him long to get warmed-up.
"If you were doing a more passive version of yoga, it would not take as long to get back into that as if you were doing a more active, cardio-intense yoga, " he says.
The survey also concluded parents now take twice as long to get their babies to sleep in the evening as their parents' generation did - an average of 56 minutes compared to 28.
Whichever social network flag you fly, it still won't take you very long to get there, as the Series 40 software it runs on has been set up to put them all front and center on the homescreen anyway, with WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter coming pre-installed.
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Another question: if Arena is going to face a long wait to get lorcaserin approved, will it need to take some steps to cut costs, such as layoffs?
Make sure the product is in stock and fulfilled by Amazon as some of their affiliates can take a long time to actually get the gift in the mail.
But I think it'll take us a long while to get sick of it because there's so many names to get to know and go to hear, and it just seems like a really terrific race.
But it took a politician with an ability to take a short-term hit in order to get the long-run results that we needed.
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"It'll take a few weeks to get back to his best but I don't think it'll take that long, " Chapman told BBC Radio Norfolk.
Too bad it could take as long as five days to get the results.
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And it will take a long time for us to get out of the hole that that created.
It would take a long time for me to get enough experience to make even three hundred a week.
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