It was a cancer. President Cleveland asked how long he could wait to have the cancer removed.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

But carrots loose their sweetness if you wait too long to pull them from the ground.

VOA: special.2009.02.24

The seventy-one year old cried tears of joy as she told the crowd the award was "a long time coming" but worth the wait.

VOA: special.2011.02.18

President Grant did not wait long to use his powers under the new law.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

Major Anderson and his men at Sumter, he said,could not wait that long.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

Long lines stretch around the popular exhibits, with visitors forced to wait several hours to get a glimpse inside.

VOA: standard.2010.05.02

No concrete action is expected from these meetings, but General Jones says, "You get in trouble when you wait too long before talking to your neighbors."

VOA: standard.2009.08.10

but,we can't afford to wait for long." Meir Javedanfar of the MEEPAS center in Tel Aviv says that the Sejil 2 missile is nothing for the West to worry about.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

"I think this will reverberate very loudly in the region, and you will see it perceived especially by our enemies, by the Taliban and al-Qaida, as an admission that America is losing its will and is not committed over the long term, and they will be able to convince their recruits to wait the U.S.out,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.06