"My poor friend," I said, "how long have you had that cough?"

VOA: special.2009.02.07

"Insurgencies last a long time." "But,as you look at how long it took to turn Iraq around, it was about 18 months.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Now,he thinks short is better. "I've gotten researchers telling me that you don't realize is how long someone can have a high level of concentration.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

"I was one of these teenagers, and so I know how difficult it can be to break this habit when it's been with you for a long time,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.22

So, how long have you been like this?

VOA: standard.other

"People ask me,' How long did it take you to write that book? ' The answer is,'Sixty-eight years.'" The book consists of 600 essays by Milner - some done in consultation with other experts in the many fields shaped by Darwin's thinking ." .

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

"This was a first and therefore you had to deal with his absurd and vile policies and the analysis of them had to take a long time and you had to get right down deep into him and how he thought,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Democrat Carolyn Maloney asked him about economist's predictions that it would take the country to full employment: "Assuming that jobs are created at 2.8 million jobs per year, the best job creation of any administration, and this was achieved by former President Clinton, how long would you expect it to take us to get back to full employment?" "Well,without offering an opinion on that 10.7 million jobs, at that rate though, it would be about three years."

VOA: standard.2009.12.05