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  • adjective having been awaited for a long time

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  • Jacobson was referring to the long-awaited perimeter security deal, billed as an effort to boost cross-border trade and reduce congestion, without compromising security.

    CBC | Top Stories News 2011

  • Mr. Jacobson was referring to the long-awaited perimeter security deal, billed as an effort to boost cross-border trade and reduce congestion without compromising security.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed LEE-ANNE GOODMAN 2011

  • Calling the long-awaited regulation a "landmark safety achievement" that resolves pilot-fatigue issues that have been festering since the 1970s, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Wednesday said the changes were based on the latest scientific sleep research.

    FAA Mandates Longer Rest Periods for Pilots Andy Pasztor 2011

  • Like Tugwell and many future New Dealers, Johnson saw the Great War not as the worthless horror that most Americans considered it to be but as a long-awaited opportunity to militarize all of society.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • It's been a little more than five months since the couple announced their long-awaited engagement — 22 weeks and three days for the PR-canny couple and the palace news operation to dribble out day by day the myriad details of a ceremonial state wedding.

    William and Kate plan modern wedding 2011

  • Franklin, who canceled several performances last year because of illness, has set her first concert since surgery on May 28 at the Seneca Niagara Casino in Buffalo, N.Y., and is set to release her long-awaited album, "Aretha: A Woman Falling Out of Love," the first week of May.

    Recovering Aretha Franklin Gives Up Pigs' Feet For Diet AP 2011

  • But, the truth is... this long-awaited outdoor Woodstock Music & Art Fair show sounded just plain awful to me, even without my parents dictate.

    Binky Philips: I Didn't Go To Woodstock, But I Lived There Binky Philips 2011

  • Franklin, who canceled several performances last year because of illness, has set her first concert since surgery on May 28 at the Seneca Niagara Casino in Buffalo, N.Y., and is set to release her long-awaited album, "Aretha: A Woman Falling Out of Love," the first week of May.

    Recovering Aretha Franklin Gives Up Pigs' Feet For Diet AP 2011

  • A long-awaited white paper on public services, now delayed until May, is expected to set out more details of how the government intends to support the mutual model.

    Mutuals set to take over public services 2011

  • But, the truth is... this long-awaited outdoor Woodstock Music & Art Fair show sounded just plain awful to me, even without my parents dictate.

    Binky Philips: I Didn't Go To Woodstock, But I Lived There Binky Philips 2011

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