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The park authorities, he says, “have been here for a very long time and never done a project for the people.”

He eventually earned a Ph.D. in psychology and worked in various universities, though never for very long.

“If ISIS is flying, or is thinking about flying, it will not be doing so for very long,” one Air Force official said.

Killings and shootings of young black men by police officers, for little or no reason, has been going on for a very long time.

One of the technicians told me sadly that they worked these very long hours and no one provides them with food.

But this did not last very long, for the weather suddenly changed, and rain fell in immense quantities.

Not very long ago he had assured her that he could become to her her ideal of a friend, if she would show him how.

"I was only thinking it was as if she was settling herself to lie in bed for a very long time," said Ethel.

As he took his hat and stick, his hand trembled a little, for the Hope had been away a very long time at sea.

He did not have to wait very long until a man in the garb of a telegraph messenger came up the street.