It is surprising that it has taken people so long to take advantage of what is a win-win opportunity.

令人惊讶的是，人们花了那么长的时间才把一个双赢的机会利用起来。

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The point is you shouldn't have to wait so long to see a doctor.

关键是不该等那么长时间才看病。

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The reporter waited so long to interview the headmaster yesterday.

记者昨天等了很久才采访到校长。

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Why did it take so long to realize that released prisoners were involved in the planning of this?

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So we have a lot to go, a long way to go to get the same as here.

所以我们还有很长的路要走，才能变得和这里一样。

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So priests, ministers or pastors -- we still call them pastors -had long been referred to as shepherds.

因此牧师，神官或教会牧师-我们仍然这样叫他们,很长一段时间都以牧羊人来代指。

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Which naturally raises the question: What took the famously acquisitive Singleton so long to diversify?

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"What's interesting is that the BBC have taken so long to get it launched, " he said.

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So why has it taken so long to standardize, to ramp up this training?

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