Authorities say the land in question is owned by the government, but activists argue villagers have been farming the land for many years and have nowhere else to go if it is developed by a private company.

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Analysts say it is not unusual for cases to go on for many years, even decades, and there have long been complaints about the laborious nature and slow pace of India's judicial system.

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But believe me the helicopter crews fill the same body bags and they wreak the same kind of damage on the Vietnamese and Laotian countryside as anybody else, and the President is talking about allowing that to go on for many years to come.

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But many of them do now want to go dancing, travel and have a good time for many more years than before.

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Outgoing tourism is likely to go on growing strongly for many years yet, at least so long as Russia remains a democracy.

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But after the surgery, she was able to go to the mall to shop for the first time in many years, without pain.

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"Many of our members who have been loyal and hardworking employees of the company for many years will struggle to find work in the current economic climate, if the proposed redundancies go ahead, " she said.

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Such action, they say, would go way beyond any immediate military strike and last for many years in an attempt to cut off terrorists' funding and destroy their organisations and communications.

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But the way the Mets go about doing that is likely to be different from the way they did it for many years.

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