The I.R.S. sometimes, in effect, pays two refunds instead of one: first to the criminal who gets a claim approved, and then a second to the legitimate taxpayer, who might have to wait as long as a year while the agency verifies the second claim.
Raja Zulkepley Dahalan, director of the Haz Employment Agency, one of the largest suppliers of foreign maids in Kuala Lumpur, and a former president of the Association of Foreign Maid Agencies, said he now told his clients that they might have to wait as long as eight months for a domestic helper.
An expert in "waiting line analysis theory," Allen said that without early voting this year, voters in Franklin County using the same number of machines as in 2004 might have waited as long as 30 hours to vote.
He asked if he might wait inside as it was chilly outside.
He said he did not think about public perception but admitted he was calculated in his choices; he said he would choose his next film irrespective of its genre, then said he might simply wait, as he did after "Superbad," until the right drama came along.
In the end, thanks in part to increasingly fast, reliable and abundant broadband, you might not have to wait as long for that in-home robot assistant, or for the car that drives for you, as you might think.
Mr. Baute said the work could take "weeks or months" -- longer, possibly, though he did not say so, than the Bush administration might be prepared to wait as it weighs its options for war.
They might be waiting there for as long as it takes Chris to become a tolerable person, and by that I mean forever.
Bill Wyman is sitting alone in the corner of his restaurant Sticky Fingers, patiently waiting, as you might expect.
