The Mint's Christine Aquino says people don't mind the lengthy wait to see,hold and photograph the medals.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

After lengthy negotiations, film producers have announced that audiences will not have to wait much longer.

VOA: standard.2009.06.05

An explosion crippled the spacecraft soon after the crew wrapped up a lengthy live television broadcast.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

"It is very expensive to drill bore holes in Somalia. It is a very lengthy, cumbersome process, although that is ideally the way to go.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

He is a former anti-apartheid activist who is well connected in the ruling African National Congress, and his lengthy case frequently disturbed the political hierarchy.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

The ruling sets a legal precedent in Australia, where helping someone to take his own life is punishable by lengthy prison terms in some states.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

There is little doubt that a civilian trial will be a lengthy process.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

His military and civilian advisors have provided the president with a range of options, and there have been a number of lengthy closed-door meetings at the White House.

VOA: standard.2009.11.13

That is the most since the lengthy deployment began back in 2001.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Political analysts expect lengthy negotiations before Iraq's new government takes shape.

VOA: standard.2010.03.12

Blair,a retired U.S.Navy admiral who has been in his job about two months, covered a wide range of topics during a lengthy session with reporters at DNI headquarters just outside Washington.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

That is not acceptable. And I will not tolerate it." The president spoke after a lengthy meeting with key cabinet and agency heads involved in all aspects of aviation security and counter-terrorism.

VOA: standard.2010.01.05

The Greek Cypriots canceled the latest session Thursday after Turkish Cypriot authorities held up a bus convoy of Greek pilgrims for lengthy security checks as they sought to cross the dividing line between the communities.

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

After difficult and lengthy negotiations, the Southern African Development Community's mediator, then-South African president Thabo Mbeki, shepherded the three leaders into concluding the agreement, which produced a government of national unity in February of this year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

U.S.Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Michele Flournoy, says President Obama's decision to send 30,000 more U.S.troops to Afghanistan in the next six months and then begin withdrawing them by July 2011 was made only after a lengthy district by district evaluation of the security situation in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.12.08