Both sides have recently made public statements that they intend to be joined at the hip for a considerable period of time.

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The judge agreed that the process would take a "considerable period of time" and extended the period of the confiscation application by another three months.

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He told the court that voicemail messages on the duchess's mobile phone "were intercepted for the News of the World over a considerable period of time".

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It took a considerable period of time for the final to come to life, with neither side able to make much of an impression on the other's goal in the opening 20 minutes.

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Mr Salmond told the gathering that historically Scotland had always grasped the importance of internationalism because as a nation "we have been used to sharing sovereignty, in one form or another, for a considerable period of time".

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