But it may be years before it becomes clear what risks are being borne by taxpayers.
It may be years before it makes a serious dent in consumption.
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Alea iacta est - "the die has been cast" - and it may be long years before it comes to rest.
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It may not be today, and it may not be for many years, but you can rest assured that at some point there will always be a reckoning.
It may be years before the Dusseldorf prosecutor brings charges, if it ever does.
Fitch believes it may be several years before contributions by GWM are consistently and proportionately significant.
It may be several years before liver specialists can tell whether the technique has proven benefits.
The report calls for further research into the condition but warns that it may be years before a physical cause is found.
Even when they do, it may still be years, if ever, before their income is comparable to what they earned when they set aside paid work.
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But it may be five years before they are ready for a field trial, in which researchers could work out how best to use the animals' sensitivity to TNT.
Quite naturally, such radical plans have been met with much grumbling opposition, and Business Week reports that it may be years before the full reforms are implemented ... if at all.
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It may be several years before the job is completely finished, and the Rebuilding After Sandy motif, which had a one year return of approximately 43%, offers one measure of how quickly and how well the job is getting done.
It may be more like 20 years before Greenlandic oil is produced, assuming it is even found.
It may not be as visible as it was 50 years ago, but it's still visible.
Its film business has shrunk from 30, 000 employees to 10, 000 and the industry's leaders have given warning that it may be just two years from total collapse.
However, while it may be another ten years before snake robots are consistently used in search and rescue operations or in medical situations, Choset believes they will one day be hugely valuable devices.
Can we not agree that the vampire theme is dramatically defunct, and that, whatever transfusions of parody or savagery it may receive, it will not be resurrected for many years?
But there is some goodish news: It's farthest advanced in the U.S. It says private-sector deleveraging may be complete in two years, freeing it to stimulate growth again.
The status of the hen harrier in England is now markedly worse than it was five years ago and it may cease to be a breeding species if the current level of persecution continues, the group says.
Shell said it may be less than two years away from a major advance in shale-gas production in China.
The contracts may prove to be loss-leaders in the early years, but they may calculate it is worth the hit just to be players in the game.
When interest rates are at 6 percent and the real estate market seems to be booming, the average interest rates in five years may be 12 percent and it may be 3 percent.
If they knew a new version was coming out in less than two years it may be worth paying for Software Assurance.
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Before the government resorts to compulsion, it may be worth waiting a few years to see how much younger workers save, says Mr Dilnot.
Yet it may not be clear for several years if these rules will be enforced with enough rigour to give Moneyball a sporting chance against munificence.
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It may be possible to buy back years on National Insurance that you have missed but again you need to do this by checking out your current entitlement.
That should unleash some healthy competition: Within a few years it may not be uncommon to buy a set-top digital box that can not only decode cable transmissions, but is also a web browser, a game machine and a DVD player.
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