When I had waited a long time, without hearing him lie down, I decided to open a little -- a very,very little -- crack in the lantern.

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If I get delayed at the metal detector, the laptop won't be sitting out in the open for a long time.

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Whether the "high speed" portion of those two ventures will ever materialize will remain an open question for a long time.

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For a long time it was an open question whether American journalism would follow the professed objectivity of the Ochs family's newspapers or the outspoken advocacy of Hearst's.

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