While the water was expected to recede here, it may take days, perhaps weeks, and that is if it does not rain.
After first being reassured by the authorities that the accident was not so bad, then encouraged as the government began its costly decontamination effort, many evacuees are finally accepting that it may take decades, perhaps generations, before their town could be restored to anything like it was before the disaster.
In some cases it may take some time, perhaps even days, before the news finally sinks in.
Everything else that we would like, but doesn't exist, may take some time, perhaps too long.
She said it may take a revolution, perhaps with some bloodshed, to improve the lives of women oppressed by Islam or by dictators, or who are pressured into prostitution.
But a summer of difficulties has dented India's confidence, and a growing chorus of critics is starting to ask whether India's rise may take years, and perhaps decades, longer than many had hoped.
It may take years and perhaps decades for doctors to determine how much of a role head hits and brain trauma have in patients with C.T.E., as opposed to genetic predisposition and health maladies like heart disease.
This may take some time, perhaps as long as it took Reed, to pass the pig through the python, but after it has done so there may be enough left in the restructured, reinvigorated residual bank to be worth something to shareholders.
The absence of significant impacts at rounds 2 (month 4) and 3 (month 8) suggests that the impact of the conditional cash transfer may take time to materialise, perhaps because it is not easy to extricate oneself from complicated sexual relationships, or perhaps because participants needed time to become accustomed to (and trust) the incentive mechanism.
It may take him to North America, perhaps as early as next season.
