"Given what we know about production downtime, in 2011 we see 328, 000 US customers of the affected brands are up for grabs, and more if the time to wait for a particular brand begins to extend, " says AT Kearney's Dan Cheng.
The wait time for a kidney in western Europe is also three years, notes the Council of Europe, but it is expected to rise to ten years by 2010.
He warned that the country could not afford to wait years for new development at a time when the economy was struggling - but the move has been criticised by conservation groups.
"I find it very frustrating that someone of that stature would not really have true knowledge of the numbers he is actually quoting on things, " Zelt told us, saying the average wait time for a knee replacement is actually 109 days, and a hip replacement is 91 days.
But they will need strong nerves and the patience to wait for a long time.
Value investors target depressed valuations but may wait for a long time for the market to share their appreciation of the down and out.
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"The club have said they will wait and see whether they qualify for the Champions League but there will come a time, especially if they go out of the Europa League early, where the crowd will end up making the decision for the board, " he said.
The average wait time in some countries for obtaining a U.S. visa is 100 days.
Exec has streamlined its technology so that the wait time to get an answer for a job request is just two minutes, Kan says.
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Once the options are exercised, the employee has the freedom to either sell the stock immediately or wait for a period of time before doing so.
Apparently after two straight World Series appearances and a late losing streak that cost the Rangers the 2012 AL West title, some fans prefer to wait and see if the club rights itself in time for a deep postseason run.
But the government will wait for the commission's recommendations, due in a year's time.
He may have to wait a while to return to the playoffs for the first time since 2006.
If successive secretaries of state wait until there's an all-party consensus at Stormont on the need for an opposition, then they will wait a long time.
Unfortunately we still have a bit of time to wait for either, with the boosted contrast ratio model entering production later this year and the flexible one sometime in early 2011.
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The form was delayed for processing initially by two weeks, a wait time that Forbes writer Janet Novack suggested could have been avoided.
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At the time, we still had to wait for our deposit to be returned and find a new deposit for our new property and I had to borrow off my mother.
Entering the second quarter, it was a time to be more cautious and wait for some digestion or a pull-back to re-enter or re-add to any long positions.
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Depending upon the provisions of the partnership agreement, the investor may have to wait an extended period of time, perhaps a year, for his money.
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As all of us anxiously wait for the week to go by, I wanted to take some time and talk about the importance of having a safe start to the Holiday Season.
They not only had to wait until the space station steered into the proper lane for the Soyuz, but they had to pick a time when the distance between the station and the Soyuz once the Soyuz reached orbit was at a minimum.
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To me, that's sort of like saying that historically African-Americans are likely to have high rates of diabetes and hypertension, so instead of launching a program to save some from developing the disease, let's wait for a comprehensive plan where all can be saved at one time.
Klinsmann feels his old strike partner might have to wait another four years for the team to develop fully into one that can lift the World Cup for a fourth time.
And now is the time to change unemployment from a period of "wait and see" to a chance for our workers to train and seek the next opportunity -- so when that new and better day does come around, our people, our industry, and our entire country are ready to make the most of it.
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By committing to keep them near zero for the next two years, the Fed has actually lengthened the time Americans will now have to wait before a real recovery begins.
The nearly inevitable wait for dinner (two or three hours at prime time, unless you e-mail ahead for a reservation) is made more pleasant by a free kegger.
Now, once you understand that, you think, wait, wait a minute, we could get a full time assistant for that homeless guy and put him in a suite at the Hilton and we could save money.
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